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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]9 so third grade right? Let me tell you if he is well liked now, [b]that won't last[/b].  By 4th grade those class clown behaviors that seem funny in 2nd grade start to get really annoying as most boys start to grow out of those behaviors and the adhd kids don't.  There was a kid in my sons class that the boys started hating so much at that age because he kept touching them and interrupting and doing silly things to get attention.  Also playground sports become important and he [b]will be [/b]ostracized there too because he won't be able to keep up and [b]will do [/b]things to annoy the other boys like grab the ball and run away.

I bet every parent on here who has chosen to medicate has a story to tell about a sobbing child recounting some playground moment that just broke that parents heart and contributed to the decision to try meds. [/quote]

Are you suggesting medicating a child in advance of a social problem? Children, even those with ADD, grow and change too, often without medication. [/quote]

Nope, I'm just telling her what's coming around the corner.  It's probably happening already and she just doesn't see it.  Yes, children grow and change, but it sounds like he is on a negative trajectory AND he is already suffering other negative consequences of his untreated ADHD.  So I'm not buying her assertion that the other kids love her kid.  Dollars to doughnuts they find him annoying as hell, and the other neighborhood kids don't want to play with him not because they don't like to play as much as he does, but because he is irritating and they don't want him around.

I'm not advocating that OP medicate her child.  I'm just telling her to get off her high horse and realize that parents who make other choices typically do so after careful consideration and a lot of discussion, research, and heartache and NOT just to make their kids docile in school so as not to annoy the teachers.  OP is not entitled to criticize when she so clearly has made so little effort to help her son and when she has not implemented other options available to her.  The fact that, for example, she does not make her son exercise before school, which any simple research will tell you is sort of a front line, basic intervention that will help an ADHD child, is very very telling.

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