AH> I'm beginning to see a trend here...I don't think 
 AH> most schools are equipped to
 AH> handle ADHD! I have an 8 year old with ADHD that 
 AH> I'm trying to homeschool now
 AH> because she marches to the beat of her own drummer 
 AH> and it's certainly not the
 AH> same beat as the school's.
 AH> She's on Dexadrine, but since she's underweight to 
 AH> begin with and doesn't have
 AH> much appetite, the doctor wants me to "endure all 
 AH> that you can endure." I think
 AH> I've about reached that point! Last year in public 
 AH> school, if we ran out of her
 AH> meds the school would send her home until I was able to get more. They
 AH> couldn't/or wouldn't deal with her like that. She 
 AH> wouldn't sit down and do
 AH> anything assigned at all. That's the problem I'm 
 AH> having at home too...I think
 AH> I'm going to HAVE to medicate her - at least during "school" hours.
 AH> Then I can have time to deal with the challenge of 
 AH> figuring out which planet
 AH> the drummer she marches to resides on.
Girl freind I hear you LOUD AND CLEAR !!!! So is she doing better with 
homeschool than she was in regular school? My youngest is on dexadrine too . 
Did she have some kind of ba{d reaction to ritalin?
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