NaokoSmith
Honourable Slut
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The part that pisses me off about the prescription is that we do it for the benefit of her teacher and the school, not for our daughter. Last year, when she was in kindergarten, she went the first three weeks without any medication. We got email after email from the school about her behavior. At one point, they suggested we withdraw her because she was being disruptive. It was then, of course, that we got her on the prescription.
I look back to when I was a kid, long before pills were dolled out hand over foot to any kid who might have a potential problem. I remember some of my classmates in second and third grade causing problems. But they were dealt with, and not with a lash or a paddle, but by teachers who were strong enough in personality and intelligent enough to understand how to handle such children. And this was in a DODDS school.
Those kids went through the system. They learned to control their behavior.
Or, maybe they didn't and were just pushed along. There was no failing second and third grade, after all. But I find it hard to believe that decades of supposed "problem kids" have been suddenly remediated by the introduction of various pills. That's not the God damned answer.
*sigh*
Deep breath.
We're gonna figure this out. I know we will. Because we have to.
And then maybe I'll find a blog to post my "wisdom" on.
You sure should write it up. It's a big issue. Teachers are hard to get out of their 'we are the saints who know best' niche. And medics are the worst!
You can come and guest on my blog if you like, Dads are very welcome. That blog is just for figuring out some of the domestic stuff which nobody tells you is going to be quite as complicated as it turns out to be. I like the domestic, it just annoys me that it's so down-graded and people expect you to do it like birds feeding worms to their fledglings, rather than offer you some support and outline different ways of managing what is a really big workload - even without having a child who has different needs.
Hiya, Dampy. 
