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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would be ADHD if I were raised as a kid today. The pressures kids have to sit still and focus for hours on end each day at younger and younger ages is truly ridiculous. I had 3 recesses until I was 9 years old. My kid has ONE for less than 30 minutes. I have more of a recess in my current job than he gets at school! No human can focus like that for hours without medication. [/quote]

This. We expect kids to do much more at school, including homework at younger ages, and schools often communicate information in inconsistent ways, while adopting policies like not accepting late homework at all, which makes immature, ADHD or otherwise challenged kids feel like complete failures.  For boys, especially, who might be later bloomers, it is extremely difficult to get by in the middle school years, even without ADHD.  Add that to the mix, and you can see why more parents pursue a diagnosis. Before high school, kids need to move and blow off steam during the day, and they don't get it. Parents can't help their kids get organized, because teachers don't communicate assignments, test dates, etc. to parents. Heck, they don't even send tests home.

I agree PP, I couldn't make it through a day of middle school.  I'm positive.[/quote]

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