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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Haven't had an overnight with school but my 11 year old has had all day trips and we coordinated meds with the school. We had to fill out a particular form and then they made the chaperone responsible to remind him but he carried it himself.

For over night sleepovers I tell the hosting parents about the medicine schedule. But I tell my son to be responsible to remember to take it. He carries a pill box with am and pm sides.

He doesn't have a phone and not sure that he would be ready for it next year. These "text him" responses are making me cringe a bit. Many adhd kids cant handle phones. And this is a 6th or 7th grader, Im not sure all nuerotypical kids can either. Dont love that solution.[/quote]

When a child has a condition that requires timed medication and there is technology that can help them manage their health, I have no issue with it. Kids with diabetes start using tech at a very young age to manage their health. Kids with adhd can also use tech like watches and alarms and text messages to help them manage their own health. I think the view that an 11 or 12 year old is too hound to be involved in any way in their own health or manage if their health is more about a parents issues than that their 11 or 12 year old is actually so incompetent that they aren’t capable of being involved at all in their own health and management. In those cases, they shouldn’t be on the trip without a parent chaperone if their condition is so severe that the child would be unable to understand an alarm or a text or what their medication is or why they take it. Tech is not the enemy and it plays an important role in health management and in supporting agency and involving kids in their own care. [/quote]

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