For what it’s worth: it’s hard to get feedback about your kids. We get a lot of negative feedback about Elliot, regarding his behavior. I largely ignore it and don’t seek it out. Today I got two different kinds of feedback, which was interesting. The first was from his teacher at school asking if Elliot had taken his medication this morning. She has no sort of plan in place to address his behaviors, even though I’ve given her ideas, he’s on a 504 plan, and she supposedly has a background in special ed.
The second was from the substitute teacher at church (not written directly to me). I had told her to have me paged if he didn’t behave, because he was not on his ADHD medication and he had already had a largely inattentive weekend. Anyway, we get good reviews about his behavior so rarely that I had to post this one.
From classroom teacher, who depends solely on medication for behavior management:
Elliot is having a very difficult morning. Just wondering if he took his medication this morning or if there is something that could be the cause. He is being very silly, perseverating on things(can’t move on or let something go), very talkative and loud, lots of talk outs and some of the behaviors I have been seeing.
A'me, I am so sorry about his school troubles. It's been my experience with E in the past that he responds often to what the Sunday school guy did. I know he can settle and do well. In my prayers.