Some More ADD - TCAH - My Own Child
Ok, so remember, I’ve told you my son talks a lot. And, when report cards came home yesterday, my thoughts were thus far confirmed. No problems with staying on task, cleans up after himself, works independently. Does that sound like ADD to you?
It doesn’t to me. It doesn’t to his teacher, thank goodness. So, I’m thrilled beyond belief to know that he is just a chatter box and for now, we have no problems. I know that doesn’t mean we are scott free forever, but it is a nice start.
And, add to that, the post about the ADHD Diet over on Mental & Emotional Health and you can see that I’m not very fond of this ADD, ADHD blanket diagnosis.
And, in this post, About that other book, I had this to say,
“There are entire sections devoted to homework. E.g., classroom management has a section on homework. Here are some quotes: (Whoa, classroom management and homework are not synonyms…classroom management does not equal homework, sorry)”
And, I meant it. And, if anyone thinks for one minute that medicating a child for ADD or ADHD or assigning homework is a good way to work out classroom management problems, that someone would be seriously delusional.
Then, in this post, I tell you about a teacher who yells a lot. And, her classroom management style is to yell abusively at the students. Sure it works, they must be scared to death. She scares me. She too, in my opinion, needs to return to college for that class on classroom management….I had one, I know she had one…but I’m thinking that was a class she skipped out on a lot because she knew she could just yell at those 6 year olds and they would be ready to stand on their head if she bellowed.
And, that’s all I’m saying for now on classroom management..simple, ritalin does not make every child in the room behave…now does it?
October 6th, 2008 at 4:55 am
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