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Son with bad grades. Do I take his bike away?
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[QUOTE="Patman, post: 610556, member: 16962"] We try to keep a good read on what our son's current passion is so that when we have to restrict something it stings. Sometimes it's the dirtbike, sometimes TV & game sysyem, or sometimes just totally grounded. He tried to pull the "Oh I forgot..." business about twice with the game/TV and I told him that the next time he "forgot" I'd just take those things to Goodwill so it wouldn't be a problem for him to remember, it's never happened again. We've been pretty lucky as he's not caused too many problems after we got a few of the ground rules sorted out. On the ADD/ADHD front we were down that road with his 3rd grade teacher. The first 2 months of school she kept bringing it up. I finally got tired of her and called his doctor to schedule an appointment. The doctor got on the phone and told me not to waste my time as the first part of the year he has a huge number of teacher diagnosis's coming in and that our son was about as far from that end of the scale as was possible. We also found out that this teach had been saying the same thing to at least 75% of the partents in the class! That being the case she, the principal and myself had a little "conference", that stopped it cold. Besides that we had a few other problems with the school that caused us to decide to move. The new school district has a higher rating than the previous and the skills tests results are significantly higher. Every teacher at the new school has been highly complimentary of our son. His grades are much higher and he enjoys school now. On the flip side we have friends that my wife and I were totally convinced their son was pegging the ADHD meter! We just saw them this past weekend after almost a year (they were our neighbors in our old neighborhood) and their son was tested and put on medication. Because they waited until the last part of the school year and he just scraped by they decided to hold him back a year in school in addition to getting him accessed and treated. Well all I can say is I am TOTALLY AMAZED! This kid had one of those insane laughs (real high pitched and fast HEheHEheHEhe) and couldn't sit still for 2 seconds, he would never "hear" you and always "forget" his punishments but never something positive. He now acts like the majority of kids his age (like little boys but can sit still and focus), his grades are much better, he'll actually carry on an age appropriate conversation and laughs like most kids (more HAAHAAHAA). They did not let the school do the accessment though (something ou son's doc also said not to let happen!) they went to the childs doctor and he did an accessment in conjunction with another doctor and a child behavior specialist. I think many teachers are much too quick to try and get every kid doped up but in some cases the child will benefit but it has to be a correct diagnosis of the problem not a knee jerk action. I also think that many people don't want to know that their child may have a problem and try to brush it off when it only hurt the child and makes the parents upset. The bottom line I guess is if it's possible talk to your pediatrition and maybe have an accessment done, if it helps your child it will only make things better for EVERYONE. [/QUOTE]
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