and give you each a hug! (Yeah, that was cheesy.)
Thanks for all of your comments to yesterday’s dramatic post. I’m not having a breakdown… everything is ok.
I’ve decided that I am mad at our pediatrician. I’m mad that he would give me pills for my kid based on a ten minute conversation. I’m mad that pills seem to be the quick fix and that most parents (none of you included…) are ok with it. I am not anti-meds. But I think that meds are very over-prescribed. The pills are in a drawer. They will stay in the drawer. On days when Jachin is particularly hyper, I will pull them out and look at them and think “I can always give him these…” and then not actually ever give them to him. I don’t think my son actually has ADD. I think he has SBD. I need to check around for more evidence and ideas for treatment. What is SBD? You’ve never heard of it? It’s Summer Boredom Disorder!! Is there a pill for that?? I’ll bet there is a HUGE spike in the number of ADD cases that are “identified” and “treated” during the summer months because mothers are stuck inside with their insanely hyper, bored children for 16 hours a day because it is too freakin hot for the kids to play outside.
This is my humble two cents. Perhaps my child is actually sick or insane. But I maintain that he is bored and he will not be ingesting any weird chemical compounds for the time being. We are going to the dinosaur museum today. That is his treatment. He is going to watch a dinosaur movie in 3D (the sweet 3D glasses included) and eat dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets for lunch, and buy a dinosaur pencil in the gift shop, and we’ll see what that does for us. If that doesn’t help, I’ll mix a little vodka and sprite in his dinosaur cup. (That’s a joke. Please don’t put a nasty comment or call authorities.)
I think his t-shirt today nails the diagnosis on the head:
“I tried to be good, but I got bored”
Thanks for your comments, guys.
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I think the Dinosaur treatment sounds good to me!
Comment by Leslie — July 20, 2007 @ 12:08 pm
I think that as the mom you did good!! You went with what you felt and it sounds like it’s right for you guys. I love that little boy so much and I’m glad that he has a mommy like you!
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