Our wonderful son hadADHD and had to be on medication when he was younger. When we left FWC and moved to WA, we didn't put him back on medication for a while, and naturally, he had all kinds of problems, from acting out at school to being a twitchy kid in twig. At first we were told, there was no such thing as ADHD and he needed to be severely punished for every infraction. Finally we were told to "get rid of him."
The things I am learning from him about his early childhood, before we adopted him at age 8, make my skin crawl. It's a miracle of God he's still alive.
It's all about appearance with TWI.
I now have a very active, adorable, aggravating, mischievous grandson, with a very strong personality. And outside his immediate family, where is he loved the most? AT CHURCH! He has over 100 friends there, who think he is too cute for words, and no one has ever suggested he should be slapped, slugged, beaten, thrashed, smacked or anything of the sort. His litlte class got up and did a song and he just stood there and grinned. I kept thinking about how performance-based TWI was and how much trouble we all would have been in. But the church we belong to got it right; he is just loved and adored, with all the other kids big and small.
INCIDENTALLY - "Trophy Mentality" is one of the best phrases I've heard on this forum! Hats off to Waysider!
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Our wonderful son hadADHD and had to be on medication when he was younger. When we left FWC and moved to WA, we didn't put him back on medication for a while, and naturally, he had all kinds of problems, from acting out at school to being a twitchy kid in twig. At first we were told, there was no such thing as ADHD and he needed to be severely punished for every infraction. Finally we were told to "get rid of him."
The things I am learning from him about his early childhood, before we adopted him at age 8, make my skin crawl. It's a miracle of God he's still alive.
It's all about appearance with TWI.
I now have a very active, adorable, aggravating, mischievous grandson, with a very strong personality. And outside his immediate family, where is he loved the most? AT CHURCH! He has over 100 friends there, who think he is too cute for words, and no one has ever suggested he should be slapped, slugged, beaten, thrashed, smacked or anything of the sort. His litlte class got up and did a song and he just stood there and grinned. I kept thinking about how performance-based TWI was and how much trouble we all would have been in. But the church we belong to got it right; he is just loved and adored, with all the other kids big and small.
INCIDENTALLY - "Trophy Mentality" is one of the best phrases I've heard on this forum! Hats off to Waysider!
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