Troubled Teens Resources

Oppositional Defiant Disorder can be so overwhelming that parents have no choice but to opt to send their child to a specialty school or schools for troubled teens that specializes with OOD teens. Imagine struggling with a child’s tantrums from toddler on through adolescence.

“At the age of of two-and-a-half, Daniel was more boisterous than a normal toddler – and it was noticed.

“He used to get so excited,” said mum, Hayley… “A normal toddler’s temper tantrum would last about five minutes. Daniel’s lasted one-and-a-half-hours.”
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“Daniel would go into one room and wreck it,” his mum recalled. “By the time I had got into that room he had done another three or four.”
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Things became so bad that the couple,…were trained in ways of restraining Daniel, now 13, for his own safety. Mrs Fletcher taught him at home – because he could not cope in mainstream school.

He wrecked a classroom at North Wootton Primary School and threatened to jump off the roof at St Edmund’s Community Foundation School… His parents came to a mutual agreement with the school for him to leave.

He is now at Eaton Hall….which caters for students with emotional and behavioural difficulties.

Daniel has the genetic condition ADHD or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder which causes behavioural and learning problems like being persistently impulsive, inattentive and defiant. He also has Oppositional Defiant Disorder, showing a pattern of negative and defiant behaviour.”

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