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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Come on. Really?  I'm happy that your kid is doing well but (1) top academic and sports success is not remotely the "ideal outcome."  I'm trying to teach my kids that kindness, love, service to others, the beauty of the natural world, and a lot of other things are far more important than any of that crap, (2) the notion that your kid is doing so well because you eschewed drugs is contradicted by all serious science in the same way that a connection between vaccination and autism is, and (3) "drugged out zombie children" is a bizarre and ignorant description of the effect of stimulant meds.  They make my kid hyper focused and present.  His full scale IQ jumped from above average to the 99th percentile when he was retested on them. There is a reason these drugs are banned as performance enhancing by athletic associations and comprehensively abused by college students.  (4) My kid is brilliant but couldn't possibly stop standing on his head and bouncing long enough to benefit from "therapy" sessions without some pharmaceutical assistance.  I'm glad your kid's ADHD is not that bad but you cannot generalize your experience to everyone.[/quote]

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