[music playing]

Liam is not like other children.

Liam, just wait for the door to open.

[liam yells]

Sh! Stand here.

Come here!

Liam!

Don't you dare. Come here. Come here. It's high up, that.

Brian, won't you [? come in? ?]

[liam yells]

I don't like this.

Liam, there's cars coming. Straight here now.

Me heart's just stopped beating then.

Have you locked it?

Why?

Because that was frightening, when you went running to there.

Give me your hand.

No.

Give me your hand. Liam.

Liam is fearless and impulsive. Brian and Eleanor know that if he sees something across the road, he won't think twice about running towards it, regardless of traffic.

Liam, not too far in front, please. Come here. First time I've told you, Liam. If I have to keep telling you the same things, you do not go on the ride. Hold my hand. I'm standing here and I'm not moving until you hold my hand. One—

I don't need—

Two.

—to hold your hand.

Hold my hand.

I don't need to.

Well, hold the pram, then. Thank you. One or the other.

He also rarely does what he is told.

Hold the pram. Second time I've told you, Liam.

[inaudible]

No. [gasp]

I don't want to [? hold the ?] pram.

I want you to hold the hand because it's very busy and we could get lost.

Liam.

Hold the pram. Now.

I don't need to hold the pram.

That.

Just hold the pram.

If I tell you one more time, you don't go on the road. We've not even got into Wickham, Liam.

Eleanor, Eleanor, Eleanor, calm down.

OK?

Calm.

I don't want to calm. I want him to hold the pram. That's a simple thing.

Hey! Hello!

Liam, not too far in front, please.

Liam is constantly on the go, and he never stays with anything for long.

Come here. Hold my hand. We're not going in there.

No, I want to go [inaudible].

[shouts]

[SHOUTS ]

Hey!

It's horrendous. There's no way you could possibly come shopping with the two of them. No, very, very rarely, we come to shop.

No matter how many times Brian and Eleanor tell him not to, Liam will do the same thing over and over again.

Liam! Brian? Liam! Go! Come here, now. Come here.

Liam, come on.

Hold my hand. Right with me.

Don't [? touch ?] me!

That's really frightened me.

Get in.

[laughs meanly]

Get in.

What did he do?

Jumped straight on that bloody edging.

Get in the car, Liam. Mummy's upset now.

[CRIES ]

Get in the car.

[inaudible] Pighead.

[inaudible].

I'm gonna kick you.

Liam, shhh.

Ooh, Liam, be quiet. I can get real mouthy. [babbles]

I'll get your belt.

Liam's behavior puts enormous strain on the whole family. Last year, Eleanor reached crisis point.

Your nerves can only stand so much, and I think that's what happened. I mean, last year, it was like my body just said enough's enough, really.

[singing] Pippin, Pippin in the [inaudible]. He likes to make [inaudible]. Do you like it to?

I got so low, obviously, I went to the doctor's. The school got involved then. And then it suddenly became— they started taking us serious.

Liam.

I don't want my coat on.

No, you need it on 'cause it'll be cold. I don't want you to be cold. Now listen.

[blows raspberry]

Now the rules are you don't go into them gates.

[blows raspberry]

OK? You don't go anywhere apart from that [? allotment ?] without telling me and checking with me first. Do you understand? Listen.

Yeah.

Say yes, Mummy, I understand.

Yes, Mummy, I understand.

Yeah, well, Daddy's going to come round with you, just to check.

Liam, be careful up there, kid. Get—

[baby crying]

[taunting]

Watch your mouth.

[babbling]

Brian and Eleanor are so concerned about Liam's behavior that they've taken him to see their local child and family mental health unit.

Liam, no. No. No. You've got a big bruise on your face now. No. Come on, you two, it's raining. Come on.

Mom!

In you get.

I'm not—

You constantly feel that you're in a no-win situation sometimes. Because if I say black, Liam will say white. If you said to him, Liam, don't put your foot on the table, he will put his feet on the table.

Come on. Don't, Liam. If you have another warning, you need to go in your bedroom for five minutes. In. Now. Have you forgotten where we're going tomorrow night? In your house now. Liam! House. Now.

[inaudible].

In the house now.

Stupid idiot.

Psychologists believe that many ADHD children develop oppositional behavior as a reaction to constantly being told off.

[crying]

It's their way of coping when they're being criticized for behavior they simply cannot help.

He needs to go upstairs in his bedroom for five minutes. He had three warnings.

[crying]

Liam, your five minutes only start from when you're quiet.