His first week of school went OK. The only issue I had was that he cried and didn’t want to go. But, the teacher had all good things to say. Then he got comfortable and everything changed. He couldn’t keep still. He made noises all day long. He would stand up and walk around during the teachers lessons. He was acting out. My kid acting out, but wait…I taught him right so what is this behavior?! After a couple years of struggles and many, many messages and meetings with the teachers and administration I decided it was time to get him tested for behavior disorders. Of course within the first few minutes of the test the lady looked at me and says, “Before I send in my notes and get you an official evaluation, I will tell you that your boy does have some level of ADHD.” DEFEAT, which is all I could think of. How could this be? ADHD isn’t real…is it?
504’s, IEP’s you name it we were doing it all. Some of these things did help and some didn’t. However, now that I was aware that it is a real thing, there have been many things I have had to change. I have to say that the ONE major thing I did that made the biggest change, and hard to admit, was me. Here was a typical morning before everything started going better.
