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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If a kid really has impulsivity issues, not much will help except medication. No incentives or consequences. Kids need a lot more recess than they get. [/quote]

This. It's really bad by MS and HS. Some of these kids cannot focus and it's caused them to miss huge chunks of material. Many read on a K-3 level and are still counting on their fingers. The ones who have the academic chops are also not performing as well as they should. Some of them could handle Honors level classes but aren't doing well because parents refuse to address the issue, so instead they play around in class and get in trouble.

If you look at which kids are chronically in trouble in grades 7-12 it tracks very closely with the ones who have problems with impulsivity.[/quote]

And, everyone thinks that medication is the only answer.  Scary.[/quote]

If you want your kid to succeed but don’t want to do “medication,” the only real solution other than that is some kind of extremely non traditional track through adolescence. Something like reduced hour homeschooling, combined with lots of working/labor to burn off energy. Which you could only really get on a large tract of land. And then maybe they could go back and finish their schooling once they hit 25+ and the hormone levels start to even out. This would have been viable throughout human history btw, a high energy kid probably would have just been a laborer or a farmer and been perfectly happy. But it won’t work today because they’ll end up committing crimes on the streets. [/quote]

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