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Is Your Child Defiant or Distracted?

Irwin Army Community Hospital

May 10, 2021 | 12:55

Kids deal with many of the same feelings and frustrations that adults experience. But unlike adults, some children act out feelings in problematic ways that, from a parent's perspective, seem like defiance. Repeated, consistent, incidents of "defiance" may turn out to be something else.
An IACH pediatric psychiatrist explains what happens when a child has an inability to focus due to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

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