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<blockquote data-quote="LittleDudesMom" data-source="post: 500131" data-attributes="member: 805"><p><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Malika, I absolutely and totally agree. This is one of the reasons I struggled for a over a year about the medication issue with my son. There are times I look back and wonder where his imagination and creativity could have led him had I not had him on stims or put him in something other than public school (private school wanted me to medicate him in order to continue from preschool to kindergarten so we moved to public school after looking at the Montessori, Waldorf and a local private boys academy)....but seriously, his impulsivity was off the charts! The medications did allow him a lot of academic success, a few meaningful friendships, and lots of confidence.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="font-size: 12px">But I so wished I could have homeschooled him and then gotten him into some social arts and sports. But he needed so much to learn how to get along with others, how to share things and himself, how to realize he was not the only consideration, there were times he had to do what he didn't like, etc. So school did teach him more than academics, but I really think some of his creativity is squashed by the American school set up -- it's just not "built" for boys.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LittleDudesMom, post: 500131, member: 805"] [FONT=comic sans ms][SIZE=3]Malika, I absolutely and totally agree. This is one of the reasons I struggled for a over a year about the medication issue with my son. There are times I look back and wonder where his imagination and creativity could have led him had I not had him on stims or put him in something other than public school (private school wanted me to medicate him in order to continue from preschool to kindergarten so we moved to public school after looking at the Montessori, Waldorf and a local private boys academy)....but seriously, his impulsivity was off the charts! The medications did allow him a lot of academic success, a few meaningful friendships, and lots of confidence. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=comic sans ms][SIZE=3]But I so wished I could have homeschooled him and then gotten him into some social arts and sports. But he needed so much to learn how to get along with others, how to share things and himself, how to realize he was not the only consideration, there were times he had to do what he didn't like, etc. So school did teach him more than academics, but I really think some of his creativity is squashed by the American school set up -- it's just not "built" for boys. [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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