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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]did you see a positive change?

School is pushing us to do this after receiving neuropsych evaluation, but am reluctant to medicate DC. We have just started therapy and some other interventions and would like to move slowly. I also understand it can take some tweaking to get the right med and the right dose. OTOH, want DC to finish the few months of the school year behaving better and learning better.

If you started a child on AHDH meds in or between K and 4th grades, what changes did you see and how soon?[/quote]

Hold off on meds.  Schools push meds hard because it makes their lives easier, not because they care about your kid.

We faced heavy pressure to medicate from K onwards and chose not to. Instead we worked hard every day with DS on compensating methods.  He is now in a big three private HS doing really well.

We consider not medicating him but getting the ideal outcome (top academic and sports success) while having to compete with everyone else's drugged out zombie children to be one of our greatest parenting successes.  Those poor medicated kids will have a lifetime of pharmaceutical issues to manage. [/quote]

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