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[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]

I am a mom of a kid with ADHD and a kindergarten teacher. My son had ADHD and medication worked well for him. The boys in his class who also clearly had ADHD didn’t end up on medication. So they were in 5th grade with the impulsivity of a much younger child. Always in trouble for it. I felt bad for them. The other boys didn’t want to play with them at recess because they didn’t want to get in trouble all of the time. These kids became isolated and angry in MS (I was friends with their moms). One stopped going to HS and the other struggled academically and socially. The mom took him out and home schooled him. [/quote]

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