As a teacher (and parent),I totally understand why parents don't want to medicate their child if they are having issues at school (be that because of focus or behavior). My child is on all sorts of medication for asthma and colitis,and I don't like that. I am always leary about medication because although it may be helping the problem I often wonder "what are the side effects and what are they doing?"
We started medication for C's behavior issues. We didn't want to but we felt we had no choice. Part of me feels like a failure as a parent. Like I am giving up being a parent and just letting medicine do my job. It's going to take at least 4 weeks for the meds to work. Or for us to truly see any difference. Right now the night time med that we give him seems to be working. We have had few issues at bedtime since starting.
I hope that this doesn't change the personality of my child. I hope that it just makes him happy all of the time. It's been about 2 weeks since we started the meds so hopefully we will start to see some change in his overall mood very soon.
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