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From: shani michalowitz

To: ADD_ADHD_LD@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 8:53 AM

Subject: RE: [ADD_ADHD_LD] difficulties of raising an ADD child

my son,who is now in 7th grade,struggled thru elementary school but since the beginning of this school year he is on ritalin and is really succeeding.of course it also helps that he's in a "kita ktana" but his grades are great and the teachers all love him,say he's highly motivated and doesn't 'wear thin' as the day goes on.margie

Nettie Feldman <nfeldman@...> wrote:

Our experiences have been the same. But you didn't do everything wrong: it is damned hard to raise an ADD child. I always told my son, who also suffered, wouldn't take Ritalin.

 

What I told my son, time after time, was this:

You will do very well in life, you just have to get through school somehow. For kids like him and your daughter, school is simply an obstacle.

 

Nettie

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From: ruthnis [mailto:ruthnis@...]
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 8:33 AM
To: ADD_ADHD_LD@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ADD_ADHD_LD] difficulties of raising an ADD child

Hi:
My daughter is 17.5 and we feel we did everything wrong.

Yesterday we had a meeting with the head of her school now and she
put it in the right words: the child is from 8 o'clock in the morning
till 2 o'clock suffering at school because it is difficult for her to
concentrate, feels that she is different and does not understand what
we want for her.

She comes back home and we take her to a special education teacher,
pshychologists, doctors and what have you.

How do we expect to have a happy child ? How do we expect not to have
tension at home ?

Will somebody like to comment on this ? Is your experience different ?

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