Also, and here goes Ian pissing people off again....ADD is a bullshitt excuse that people came up with for hyper. The worst part is that to resolve it they drug your kid and make them practically comotose...... what a joke. Take the necessary precautions as a parent, watch his sugars and caffeine and see if that helps. Otherwise, he is just being a kid......
Ian
BBJ, sorry for the hijack.......... your son sounds like a very healthy normal 6 year old. Our schools all have a "hands Off" policy too. It's ridiculous at times. My one son got detention for pinching another student (his friend) on St Patrick's day. Give me a break. Could we please use some common sense people ??
Ian, I'm not pissed off, but I do want to give you some information that maybe you don't know. I didn't know it myself until several months ago when I was transcribing a medical report. There are several different types of ADD.
ADD is actually no longer used as a diagnosis. It is now called ADHD. Attention deficit hyperactive disorder. There is also a version called ADHD-I. The I stands for inattention. These kids have a really hard time with focusing & organizing their thinking patterns. It normally manifests in adolescents. They also tend to have some really argumentative & defiant behaviors.
My son had always been an A/B student. Then last year his grades start to tank. He'd forget to do his homework, or he'd do it & forget to put it in his binder, or he'd get it in the binder, & forget to turn it in. This kid misplaced EVERYTHING. His shoes, glasses, binder, books, clothes, you name it.
We put him on medication about 3 months ago. We didn't tell his siblings what was going on. They just started commenting to me about how more focused & organized he was. I didn't tell his teachers either. I just asked them if they noticed a difference. He's doing so much better. His grades are back up. We changed insurance & he didn't have his medication for about 8 days. It made a big difference. We can tell now if he forgets to take his pill that morning. He's no where near comatose either.
Drugs have advanced a long way from the early days of Ritalin. Doctors & parents don't want a comatose kid. They just want appropriate medications when necessary.
Thought you might want to know.
M 19 years, MC for 8 months, DB'd for 8 months 4 kids; 18, 15, 14, & 10 I was never meant to be a doormat. It took me years of therapy to become assertive enough to stop his abuse.
