Not to be critical, but who diagnosed your son as having acute anxiety? The ADD and other disorders "diagnosed" by medical doctors have been shown to largely be artificial. Unfortunately, when parents go along with it, it reinforces in the minds of the children that something is wrong with them. Often a combination of change of diet and avoidance of media (phones, computers, TV, video games) is enough to bring such children back to reality.
When I met my stepson, he was 1. His parents had already started ADHD meds. By the time he was 3, I had him off of them and gave him a conscience, that there were consequences of doing something wrong.
You don't have to spank a child all the time to do that either. Consistency of the parents is 100% required though.
It's not that ADHD isn't real, It's that it's overdiagnosed, and usually blown out of proportion to reality.
Sure, you'll get the rare kid who legitimately cannot focus to save his life, but that's the exception, not the rule.
The problem is you've got a lot of teachers who are being taught to look for disorders rather than actually just learning how to handle a group of rowdy 5-year-olds...
I honestly feel like teaching should be more of a classical apprenticeship than a formal college thing. Seems like a lot of problems could be solved by having an older, more experienced teacher in the classroom, helping the newby get their legs under them. The knock-on effect is it would be easier to weed out people who, for one reason or another, have no business being teachers (not just what you're thinking, either. some people just don't have the temperament to teach. Myself for instance, lmao). There's some flaws, sure, but I feel like it would work better in the long haul...
My sister is a teacher and the school would usually put children who have a hard time sitting still or “misbehaving” into her class, because she knew how to handle them and it wasn’t a strain on her as it was on other teachers that couldn’t handle them.
She had seats at their desks that can move side to side and she said it never bothers her if they need to stand up as long as they didn’t disrupt the other kids or her teaching. She just has a way with all different types of kids, it’s really remarkable. She does fun things with the class and they can be silly and laugh, but she also doesn’t take any crap from them but teaches them about right & wrong choices. The kids love her, she can be a little strict at times when it’s needed but she does it in a way that isn’t mean or makes them scared of her (does that make sense?).
She has summer camps (multiple classes) all summer long, she rarely has any time off from school. Everyone of her camps gets filled to the max every single year and she’s been doing this for probably like 10 years.
Glad to hear that! (not that I'm glad that he needed it, but glad it's not a case of being prescribed medication for something that can be fixed without medication.
It seem like 90% of all medical intervention today involves unnecessary, and downright dangerous, medication.
Not to be critical, but who diagnosed your son as having acute anxiety? The ADD and other disorders "diagnosed" by medical doctors have been shown to largely be artificial. Unfortunately, when parents go along with it, it reinforces in the minds of the children that something is wrong with them. Often a combination of change of diet and avoidance of media (phones, computers, TV, video games) is enough to bring such children back to reality.
When I met my stepson, he was 1. His parents had already started ADHD meds. By the time he was 3, I had him off of them and gave him a conscience, that there were consequences of doing something wrong.
You don't have to spank a child all the time to do that either. Consistency of the parents is 100% required though.
It's not that ADHD isn't real, It's that it's overdiagnosed, and usually blown out of proportion to reality.
Sure, you'll get the rare kid who legitimately cannot focus to save his life, but that's the exception, not the rule.
The problem is you've got a lot of teachers who are being taught to look for disorders rather than actually just learning how to handle a group of rowdy 5-year-olds...
I honestly feel like teaching should be more of a classical apprenticeship than a formal college thing. Seems like a lot of problems could be solved by having an older, more experienced teacher in the classroom, helping the newby get their legs under them. The knock-on effect is it would be easier to weed out people who, for one reason or another, have no business being teachers (not just what you're thinking, either. some people just don't have the temperament to teach. Myself for instance, lmao). There's some flaws, sure, but I feel like it would work better in the long haul...
My sister is a teacher and the school would usually put children who have a hard time sitting still or “misbehaving” into her class, because she knew how to handle them and it wasn’t a strain on her as it was on other teachers that couldn’t handle them.
She had seats at their desks that can move side to side and she said it never bothers her if they need to stand up as long as they didn’t disrupt the other kids or her teaching. She just has a way with all different types of kids, it’s really remarkable. She does fun things with the class and they can be silly and laugh, but she also doesn’t take any crap from them but teaches them about right & wrong choices. The kids love her, she can be a little strict at times when it’s needed but she does it in a way that isn’t mean or makes them scared of her (does that make sense?).
She has summer camps (multiple classes) all summer long, she rarely has any time off from school. Everyone of her camps gets filled to the max every single year and she’s been doing this for probably like 10 years.
There's an old saying, "when you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life."
Sidenote: Imma take a stab in the dark and guest that she sees the kids in her classes and camps as "hers" ? lol.
Also, tell her to stay away from Crystal Lake, Illinois, lmao.
The cure for a lot more than just teaching!
I'm sure there's room for improvement on the classical model, but it's gotta be better than this horse-puckey...
Glad to hear that! (not that I'm glad that he needed it, but glad it's not a case of being prescribed medication for something that can be fixed without medication. It seem like 90% of all medical intervention today involves unnecessary, and downright dangerous, medication.
What do you mean by brain zap? Kind of like a seizure? Is there a reaction with other medication?