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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For us the early elementary years were hard because stimulants didn't work well and had more intense side effects, as you describe. That was all better when we tried again in middle school.
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I suspect this may turn out to be the case for us. Vynase was great when we tried but the side effects of outweighed the benefits. But what do while still in elementary and being told child isn't paying attention and missing key info and that's impacting peer relationships??[/quote]

Sometimes you just accept it is what it is for a while.  I’m an adult with ADHD that had severe ADHD as a kid.  All my report cards have comments about my not paying attention.  But I still learned basic math and how to read—that’s all you really need in ES and you can learn much of it out of the classroom.  Just make sure her self esteem doesn’t suffer.  My parents never made me feel like I was dumb because I couldn’t pay attention all day long.  ES school days are really too long anyway — it’s like 2 hours of learning and 6 hours of warehousing kids and behavioral normalization.

On the peer relationships, it depends, but a social skills group might help or some individual therapy to work through some skills.  But it’s also okay for her to be kind of the weird kid — that’s not the end of the world.  Lots of us were the “space cadets” or “spazz” growing up—not every kid is gojng to be perfectly socialized at every point in their life, and that’s okay.  It’s hard for us as parents because we want everything to be perfect and easy for our kids, but sometimes that’s not realistic.  So long as she knows that you love her and accept her for who she is, that’s the most important thing.  I know lots and lots of people who struggled with peer relationships but turned out to be well adjusted, confident adults because they had love and support at home.  (I hope this perspective helps — I’m not tryi my to say that your kid is doomed to be a social outcast, that’s not at all what I’m saying — just saying that many of us with ADHD struggled with peer relationships at one or more times in our lives, and  most of us survive it pretty well.)[/quote]

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