It's not unusual for a child with ADHD to have mood swings from boredom to bouts of over-excitement during long breaks from school.

Talk to your relatives. Remind them of your son's special needs, such as having a designated 'quiet room' for hectic times. Be firm but polite when asking for special arrangements and thank everyone for their support.

This ensures he'll be entertained and gives him a sense of security and choice. Include puzzle books, hand-held games, and an audio-cassette or CD player (with individual headphones) for listening to music or books on tape.

This is what the tradition is; having it on campus adds to the excitement.

The battle against squatting is only going to be won by eternal vigilance and by enforcement. Every single case of squatting is, in a sense, a regulatory problem because anybody that puts up a building, whether legal or illegal, the local authority has every power to go and ask that person for the building permit. And if one cannot be produced, irrespective of your tenure, the problem can be solved right away.

Indeed, we have turned on the heat on the matter of squatting where it occurs on government lands.