“Feeling very frustrated with the whole school/daughter (8 yrs old) thing. My Olivia is a free spirit with tons of energy. She’s spunky, artistic, and spontaneous, sweet and full of love. Everything I love about her! The school sees disruptive, impulsive (the bad kind), emotional, and talkative. She loved school up until this year (the dreaded 3rd grade). She’s just not feeling the love, and thinks her teachers hate her. It’s a real shame when a teacher can make a child feel this way. I’m tired of yelling and crying. I yell when she gets in trouble. Then cry because I yelled, and I know it’s not her fault. She has been on Focalin XR 10mg for a few years now, and it’s just not working anymore. I feel like this is all my fault, because I have become so frustrated with myself, her, the teachers and the school with their generic answers, and lack of training and follow through. Meaning when we all come up with a positive reinforcement plan, they don’t follow through, or use it to some extent, but also use the negative, so she still comes home with an F in conduct every week. It kind of defeats the purpose of the whole “positive reinforcement” chart. They just don’t seem to want to put in the effort. Olivia doesn’t fit their perfect little quiet non-fidgety drone child mold (thank goodness), and they don’t like that. Any suggestions? I so desperate, and at the very end of my rope. Help?”
I saw this mom’s complaint and it just struck a chord with me. The Olivia is developing a tolerance to her Focalin XR and she hasn’t learned to adapt to the public school classroom – Thank God! The mom is aware that there is something wrong with
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