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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree that girls can have ADHD too - but I do think that the numbers of medicated boys these days is staggering and really sad.[/quote]

You think that based on your appalling ignorance . Please STFU.  Parents of kids who have moderate to severe ADHD will tell you that medication has, in many cases, save their kids' lives. ADHD has serious social and emotional consequences for kids, including lots of behaviors that cause their peers and teachers to judge them really negatively, not to mention academic problems.  People with untreated ADHD have higher rates of suicide, alcoholsim, and drug abuse.

The anxiety that my SECOND GRADER suffered due to not being able to control his outbursts, to sit still or to focus on school work due to to ADHD were horrible.  Low dose medication on school days transformed his interaction with teachers and peers, but more importantly, it totally changed his experience of school.  As he got older, taking an even lower dose, short acting med on weekends when he had lots of homework prevented him from spiraling into an anxiety meltdown whenever he had more than 20 minutes of homework.  Meds allowed him to focus, start getting some work done and realize that an assignment that his ADHD brain told him would take several days actually would take like a half hour.[/quote]

DP. I don't think the PP meant to judge the use of medication or suggest that it is unnecessary. [/quote]

I have two boys with ADHD who struggle in their private middle school (and would undoubtedly fall through the cracks if we moved them to public). I didn’t take PP’s comment about medication as a dig on parents who medicate at all.  Instead, I thought it was a comment about our society and educational expectations where boys are made to sit down, stay still and be quiet all day.  Recess, PE and sport programs have been cut, homework expectations have risen dramatically.  My kids’ math is two years ahead of the math I did in their grades.  There are more support programs to encourage girls than boys.  However, from a development standpoint, many boys can’t sit still and concentrate for long.  They need breaks and opportunities to run around.  They need more hands on learning and less worksheets.  Teachers tend to favor and reward the nice, quiet girls who sit still and punish the boys who are restless.  More and more boys are falling through the crack.  And I think the days when men have it made will be over by the time our boys reach working age.  I already see my company giving preferences to both hiring female and placing females in leadership position and think this trend will continue.
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They can exercise before and after school. [/quote]

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