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[quote=Anonymous]It's recommended to start with behavioral therapies anyway.  You're the parent; nobody is going to make your child take medications.

I've managed my mental health without taking medications just fine, so it's definitely possible.

Another option is to just wait until your child is old enough to understand, and let him have a role in deciding whether to take meds.  For all that people stress out about elementary school kids, they don't have to be perfect. If you can cope until middle school using behavioral interventions, then at 12 or 13 he will be old enough to have a say.

Finally, if he's having issues at school, then yeah, you do need to get him evaluated and get a 504 or IEP.  If the issues are behavioral, they are only going to get WORSE if you don't address them in any way.  A downward spiral of behavior could then lead to an acute situation where you feel more pressure to medicate.

Stimulant meds help EVERYONE focus better - so certainly, you'd see changes in your kid if you put him on Ritalin. That doesn't mean you have to - you can accept that you have a kid with a difference in ability to focus as his baseline, and work on non-medication techniques to help him cope.  [/quote]

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