Good report!

Squirrel's teacher pulled me aside and said that he has been great recently--working hard in school, not causing trouble.

This is a big relief...the start of the year was so rough. I really wish that we had been able to work out his meds issues over the summer. I had the proper feedback from his camp to do this, but our psychiatrist dragged his feet...if we had acted on the camp's information back in July, Squirrel wouldn't have had any problems this year.

Live and learn. I think I need to change psychiatrists, but just can't do it right now. The place I'd like to move will mean a few thousand out of pocket, and several visits. We just don't have the time or money. As long as Squirrel is maintaining from a pharmacological standpoint, we're ok. I just feel that when problems arise, this psychiatrist is not the right fit for us.

I was telling my husband last night that when you're 20, problems are pretty easily solved for $100 or less. These days, it seems like every time anything comes up, the solution requires us to shell out $5 or $10k. It's brutal.

Now that we've got Squirrel's behavior under control, we can move on to our next problem: his handwriting! I've never seen anything written on this, but it seems to me from my casual observations of other kids I know w/ADHD, that there is a distinctive handwriting issue. When I see the writing of boys under 10 who have ADHD, there's a similarity to them--letters are not of uniform size...they are randomly small or huge. The boys don't keep on the lines of their paper. Punctuation and capital letters are ignored, words run together.

Squirrel's dad has similar issues w/punctuation and capitalization, and even at 40 he still resists writing as much as possible.

I'm not looking for my son to be a calligrapher or anything...I would just like it if he were capable of writing a note that is legible to others.

Considering getting and IEP for him w/regard to handwriting, as I foresee issues in standardized tests in the future that require writing, and I want him to have accommodations--not sure if they allow kids w/such problems to type. I don't see "extra time" as being helpful, but I think being allowed to type would be very, very helpful.