Parenting a child with ADHD isn't easy but there's new research that suggests a well-tolerated treatment is underway.
in Kindergarten, and his teacher that year even forwarded me a private email from the guidance counselor that said they’d need to make “special concessions” to accommodate his accelerated pace. But then the notes started coming home. Relentlessly.He isn’t staying in his seat. He doesn’t stop talking to other students. He’s acting very silly. He had a rough day today.
“This is what he was doing while he was supposed to be doing his worksheet,” his Kindergarten teacher once told me during an impromptu school meeting, and handed me the worksheet … with an odd strip cut out of it. Then she handed me the cut-out strip; from the glue dried on each end, I could tell it was supposed to be a bracelet. One side said “FOR MOM,” and the other side said “I LOVE YOU MOM.” I wanted to cry. My baby.
When you’re the parent of a child like this, you feel helpless. You know your kid can be flighty and annoying, and you don’t blame the teachers for being peeved that they have to manage this a classroom of other students. But at the same time, you feel outraged on behalf of your kid, who clearly can’t help it, and is suffering as a consequence.
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