Chhhyeeaaaaaaaaaaah Boy!!

Just a quick blog!

Eric had a parent / teacher conference with Johns teachers today....

Holy cow... this time last year we were literally pulling our hair out because his grades were horrible. No matter how late we stayed up with him to help him study / correct his homework, NOTHING seemed to help. It finally hit the point where it was obvious he had something going on (chemically) that was preventing him from focusing. Turns out, he has A.D.D. Once he finished up the fifth grade, we had him see the doc regarding some sort of medication to help him. I REALLY didn't want to resort to pills to make him "better", but we were at our whits end.

Well, today pretty much validated the decision for putting him on A.D.D. medication.

At this point in time, John currently has an A in Mathematics, a B in English, B in Social Studies as well as B in Science . That just blows me away since he ALWAYS had D's and F's. He remembers EVERYTHING now without having to be prompted, he can spell without us really having to hammer him over and over again.. I mean, I'm in total awe right now. I'm SO completely proud of him since the teachers just gushed about him non-stop. He doesn't fall asleep in class like he did last year, he's in the very front row to read everything clearly, if he finishes his work early then he'll pull out a book to read. He's always been well behaved in school, but it makes you feel extra good when 4 teachers say "He's a great kid. Smart, funny & a solid student. He's accurate, efficient and he knows what he's doing". When he comes home from school he instantly hammers out his homework because he FINALLY realized that once all his schoolwork is done, he'll hav more time to play & do whatever he wants.

I'm honestly BEAMING right now because of how absolutely thrilled I am to see him improving SOOOOO much!!