- OH MY goodness I so agree with what you have written here. We tell
our son exaclty the same, thanks Hinda-- In
ADD_ADHD_LD@yahoogroups.com, "Nettie Feldman" <nfeldman@a...> 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
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: ruthnis [mailto:ruthnis@0...]
> 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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