I know, I’ve been told that plenty of times. It comes from my anger, that I am trying to work through.
HP,
“In her own way, she sets the tone for our entire family.” This is the same in our family, except the one setting the tone is my wife. She is also on some type of med. I’m not sure which since it changes all the time. As for the kids, I think they are perfectly fine and functional. The middle just received an invitation to take some type of advanced testing. On last year’s state test (TAKS test here in Texas), she maxed on scores for math and verbal, something like 99 percentile. So if she doesn’t take meds, how bad could she perform?
Wife doesn’t use the meds so much for behavioral issues, kids are all very well behaved and respectful (I partially thank Japanese heritage and teakwondo for that). She doesn’t want them to suffer self esteem and confidence problems if they cannot focus and miss assignments, instructions, etc. Sounds like a little projection to me, do you think? But then, I don’t know what I’m talking about (see one source of my anger?).
