ADHD medications

[wdwlovers5]

You hit the nail right on the head. I am convinced that the district he is now in does not want to be bothered making accommodations for him. When he lived in Queens he was doing very good w/o medication and the public school was excellent in dealing with him. It was much much better. Once he moved everything went down hill. It started with him being very depressed over moving away from myself and my son - and that depression was never dealt with in any way. It progressed to his school work, to the point at 6 years old he was suspended!! It has gone down hill ever since. When the school insists a child go on medication it bothers me. My boss's son has serious anger issues and is in a school in NYC in a class which helps deal with these problems and has a shadow teacher. I have always felt they should have had a shadow teacher for my grandson but it was not to be. So now he will be put on medication which in my heart I don't think he needs. But if it helps him to focus in school and be able to do his school work with minimal side effects if any then I guess it must be done. I pray he has as much success on his meds as your child has had. Thank you.
Mary

 

[Colleen456]

3boymthr thank you for talking about your sons writing issues. A week from today we have a meeting at the school to discuss a plan of action for my son. One of the issues is that he can not write a story or express himself on paper at all. Now I have a clue as to what it may be and will suggest they look into that.

 

[wdwlovers5]

my grandson takes swimming lessons - no problem
karate lessons - no problem (well almost no problems he thinks he knows more than he does)

he is joining cub scouts Friday which I think he will LOVE since he loves nature and working with his hands and learning how to make things. He has already spoken about earning badges. I hope he will have no problems here also.

all of these things should help his socialize better with other kids, he just has to learn not to be so loud with them, some get scared and some just don't like it.

I have been told 10/22 is when he starts his meds - not sure why the doctor is waiting so long.

thank you all again.

 

[BriarfoxinWA]

my grandson takes swimming lessons - no problem
karate lessons - no problem (well almost no problems he thinks he knows more than he does)

My DS took karate too. There are some things that he seems to have no problem concentrating on. Long story - but the way I figured out he had ADD (he's not hyperactive) was by doing a search on About.com. There is some really good information there. It is possible for them to have attention deficit but be able to "hyper-focus" on things they like. My DS's things are karate and video games...

 

[wdwlovers5]

I forgot about the video games - can sit for hours with that - and building legos - and of course watching dvd's he likes - but sitting still in school for his school work is the big problem. Thank you for your info I will check out about.com.

Mary