Ronn wrote: > I have to wonder how many of those kids diagnosed with ADD/ADHD today are > really just like I was then: bored out of their minds and restless.
Ronn, you were just ahead of your time! I too was bored out of my mind. Spent most of my childhood in advanced classes being bored out of my mind. Did my level best to screw everything up during high school. And half-way through college was diagnosed with ADD after a religion professor noted my erratic writing style. I thought he was just picking on another engineering student. Spent the next year on 30mg of Ritalin every three waking hours. After awhile I burnet out...then they put me on Prozac. The only time I felt any better is when I quit that stuff and learned how to study and succeed on my own. Which brings me to this. I just got back from parent/teacher conferences to find out that Nathaniel is just like me. How do I keep this kid engaged in school? How do I lead him around the ruts that boredom can lead to? We on this list turned out just fine, but not everybody does. I think meds are the last solution I would take. Maybe for now I'll settle for some good first sci-fi books for reading aloud. Something that will make me shake off my dry monotone speaking style and open those blue eyes to some place only imagination can take you to. Matthew Bos (Who declined to tell Nathaniel's kindergarten teacher about the times that I would sneak out of the window during first grade. Being stuck in a room for eight hours was such a bitch...) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
