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<blockquote data-quote="cow pollinater" data-source="post: 1063219" data-attributes="member: 14661"><p>Break it up a little. One of the main reasons we home-school is to deal with my son's ADD. We (mostly she) do ten minutes of focus and ten minutes of him buzzing around the room making strange noises and then back to ten minutes of focus. Anything more is a waste of everyone's time.</p><p>Accept that learning is the goal and what the school says is secondary. Find what he's interested in and teach him that for a while and let the school complain all they want about where he is compared to other kids. Once he's in "I want to know MORE" mode it's easy to start slipping in other stuff. My son hates reading but I can plop a book about anything mechanical in nature in front of him and he's there for hours because it's something HE WANTS. My daughter hates math but loves all things cattle so I hit her with EPD's from a few bulls of different breeds and an adjustment table and ask her to find me the best WW in the bunch and her eyes light up.</p><p></p><p>In my mind, it sounds like the focus needs to shift away from trying to FORCE him to do good in school and go to helping him be a happy person. School work will get easier for him in time but trying to force it will push you two apart and not help the schoolwork at all. ;-) He doesn't need school anywhere near as much as he needs to just have time to get over all the drama he's had in his life. </p><p></p><p>Lots of really happy, successful, well balanced people were not good in school... It won't be the end of the world if he isn't either. ;-) He needs to hear you saying that you love him regardless of how he does in school and if you really care you need to mean it when you say it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cow pollinater, post: 1063219, member: 14661"] Break it up a little. One of the main reasons we home-school is to deal with my son's ADD. We (mostly she) do ten minutes of focus and ten minutes of him buzzing around the room making strange noises and then back to ten minutes of focus. Anything more is a waste of everyone's time. Accept that learning is the goal and what the school says is secondary. Find what he's interested in and teach him that for a while and let the school complain all they want about where he is compared to other kids. Once he's in "I want to know MORE" mode it's easy to start slipping in other stuff. My son hates reading but I can plop a book about anything mechanical in nature in front of him and he's there for hours because it's something HE WANTS. My daughter hates math but loves all things cattle so I hit her with EPD's from a few bulls of different breeds and an adjustment table and ask her to find me the best WW in the bunch and her eyes light up. In my mind, it sounds like the focus needs to shift away from trying to FORCE him to do good in school and go to helping him be a happy person. School work will get easier for him in time but trying to force it will push you two apart and not help the schoolwork at all. ;-) He doesn't need school anywhere near as much as he needs to just have time to get over all the drama he's had in his life. Lots of really happy, successful, well balanced people were not good in school... It won't be the end of the world if he isn't either. ;-) He needs to hear you saying that you love him regardless of how he does in school and if you really care you need to mean it when you say it. [/QUOTE]
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