Malika
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We have been back in France three days and already there are difficulties in J's world. He has started saying he does not want to go to school (I was dreading this happening) or to the childminder because they punish him all the time, which I believe is true. He seems to be a child who has a really strong sense of what he needs and wants and protests loudly about mistreatment - which is probably a healthy instinct. I was like that too as a child. I feel rather discouraged about the teacher at his school. I had lent her a book about ADHD for her to read over the summer - this she has done but seems to have picked out all the parts that relate to academic performance. For me, what I was hoping she would take away from it was the realisation that he has some problem with impulse control that is not volitional and that constant punishment is futile and counter-productive. I have asked to speak to her after school tomorrow to try to set some of this out. I can see that it's all going to be a battle for understanding and recognition - perhaps that sounds familiar to some people here? She has said to me that she is sceptical that J has ADHD - but he fits the profile, tending more towards hyperactivity than attention deficit. She wants to get his IQ tested - is this really relevant??
I just hope we can last out the year that I have said we will stay here in the village...
I just hope we can last out the year that I have said we will stay here in the village...