My daughter is becoming increasingly worse. I blame some of her behavior on me working full time since she was born and still attending college, however, when I was laid off from my job in October and also spent the summer out of school, she is still getting progressively worse. I have tried time- outs, I have a hard time controlling her and making her sit, then she does not seem to care and will continue the bad behavior soon after; and I even gotten to the point where I took every single toy, t.v, book, you name it out of her room and stored it in my office. She has taken it so far when she was in trouble that she hit me with an object she picked up off the floor. She began school three days ago, I thought It would be a good change for her; she has been out of day care for several months ( where she also had discipline issues) I thought being with other kids her age would bring her down to their level. She has been on red the first three days of school and I'm not sure they are going to let her stay; she will not sit and listen, the second day of class her desk was moved next to the teachers. She lost all privileges for the rest of the day when she came home from school, it has not worked yet but we are still trying. She used to listen to her father more than me, but now she is not even minding for him. We are so terrible desperate and upset, we feel we have tried so many things. I have always tried to make everything positive for her and now I feel like she's loosing out on having a great childhood because she is always in trouble. I'm so scared because I know many people think she should be on medication for ADD, and this is a huge fear of mine, I refuse to medicate my child . I feel so lost and upset, my child has such a good heart and is so fun loving and full of laughter when she is having a good day, but most of the time she refuses to behave, I sooooo desperately need help.