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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel your pain

We went thru this. My son is 22 now.  He still struggles

If I could do over I would NEVER start medication.   That is not helpful to your child maybe you and teachers but not your child

Quit work. Take your kid to parks and outside everyday.  Give him time to grow up

Our kids are the same as us.  We had time to grow up with out medications

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I wish I was medicated when I was a kid.  It would have made my adulthood a lot easier.[/quote]

Adderall is hell to get off.  visit any of the rehab centers

there is NO study that shows it helps ADHD.   We do not have any clinical evidence that confirms ADHD diagnosis. It is big phama money driving this.

We have lost track of what childhood is about, of what parenthood and teaching is about. We now think it's about having good quiet children who make it easy for us to go to work. It's about having submissive children who will sit in a boring classroom of 30, often with teachers who don't know how to use visual aids and all the other exciting technologies that kids are used to. Or there are teachers who are forced to pressure their children to get grades on standardized tests, and don't have the time to pay individual attention to them. We're in a situation in America in which the personal growth and development and happiness of our children is not the priority; it's rather the smooth functioning of overstressed families and schools. . . .

There are no miracle drugs. Speed--these drugs are forms of speed--don't improve human life. They reduce human life. And if you want less of a child, these drugs are very effective. These parents have also been lied to: flat-out lied to. They've been told that children have a neurobiological disorder. They've been told their children have biochemical imbalances and genetic defects. On what basis? That they fit into a checklist of attention deficit disorder, which is just a list of behaviors that teachers would like to see stopped in a classroom? That's all it is

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/magazine/generation-adderall-addiction.html[/quote]

Look that might be true for a segment of the population. There are also those of us for whom this way of thinking does not apply and you're going to have to stretch your mind to reach those people. My kid goes to a very expensive school where the parents are trying all that you say and more. Nobody is talking thee childenebinto joxes. These kids have mental disturbances. There is something different about their brains. They are reacting and behaving because of it. I do not believe they are not happier feeling calm and in control. My son has told me how distressing it is when he has to hit, bang, throw, feel. And how he can't hear me when he is like that. I did quit work. I did the diets. I did the therapy. I don't need your lectures. You need to take some social skills class and learn some empathy, like so many of our kids do. Many of us don't fit in the lowest common denominator. [/quote]

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