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miraclebean

and here i thought we were having a good rest of the week...

Feb 07, 2008 21:26

So I open up my Email tonight to find this from Bean's homeroom teacher. She also has him for a total of three classes. So his first three periods are spent with this teacher. She has been the most patient, the most willing to work with him. But, she's done...

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Bean went on the field trip with us, but I had to keep my eye on him. Unstructured ( Read more... )

my son is not ok, the school system hates us, mommy angst and blues

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crystalstarr February 8 2008, 06:00:06 UTC

This sounds like my son , he is six. His kindergarten teacher and everyone is convinced he has ADHD. I had him tested by his pediatrician , but he wants me to get him tested at a bigger place such as the university. Fucking christ they are kids not rats.

Manic depression, such a frustrating mess-Jimi Hendrix

indy_skies February 8 2008, 23:45:42 UTC

i occasionally read about your struggles with your child through the community bipolar_survival and i empathise with you as my parents had to raise a bipolar daughter (me) and an ADHD son (my brother) but i have to tell you that you are doing your son a disservice by not medicating him. he will only continue to be disruptive in class and become socially isolated. my parents are teachers and they deal with children with severe illnesses whose parents refuse to accept that they need medication and my mother has always said it isn't fair to the kids as their behaviour makes them socially unacceptable and even worse they fail to thrive as students and learn what they might if they didn't have to fight their illnesses. another option would be some sort of "special schooling" for bean where he wouldn't have to comply with social norms and standards but that can be costly and may not be what is in his best interest. i won't make a habit of commenting in your journal but when you criticize teachers for your own decision to make things harder ( ... )

miraclebean February 9 2008, 07:23:07 UTC

we are trying to get him meds. the medical system is not always very responsive. I've already gone the road with poor pdocs that just write scripts and don't moniter and gauge. I'm trying to get him into a program that specializes in children like Bean. I can't write the scripts myself and just throwing him on anything, which in the past has made his behavior, moods and overall quality of life worse is not the solution. I'm not opposed to meds. I just don't want him being a fucking guinea pig. It has to be done thoroughly and right. For god's sake he's only 12. Not an adult. He's still developing ( ... )

indy_skies February 14 2008, 04:37:58 UTC

mental illness from pollution... could be. i was also born two months early and in march... both i've read can be connected to the development of an MI. i wish i knew why or how it happened/happens. i want to have children some day (soon... i'm almost 28) but i worry about passing on bad genes ( ... )

enviromental poisioning is only one part of it ... miraclebean February 14 2008, 18:22:31 UTC

but it's the preventable part ( ... )

runhappee February 10 2008, 06:05:10 UTC

I'm sorry to hear all this. I'm sure this is what I have to look forward to with Lolabug.