'I never realized until just now that by denying there was an issue — insisting that our son did not need any medications or accommodations for his difficulty with school — we had inadvertently made him feel responsible (even guilty) for his struggles.'
, was equally opposed to any discussion of drugs. Even when he was colicky as hell and his pediatrician had prescribed Zantac, he didn’t tolerate it well and we stopped administering it after one night. Instead, I nursed him on my stomach to make sure he didn’t get too much milk, and somehow we muddled through another 9 months that way.
And now, here we are. After receiving his mid-quarter report and talking briefly to him yet again about getting the grades back up, I spent most of the day reading
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