"Grant Conrad" <gconrad@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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1280a@phx.gbl...
Actually I am at work right now and should be doing that
as opposed to this but.... Here I am.
Since I am at work I am posting these through the HTML
version of the group. However I haven't been in a lot of
news groups in the past and have very limited use with the
newsreaders so I am not sure I would be doing what you
mentioned. QP But I will look into it. Thanks for the tip.
What exactly does it do?

Quoted Printable is a format you can use in Outlook Express that apparently
does a bit of a different word wrap logic in that you can post a long URL
without it breaking. The problem, though, it is is much like when you are
posting in HTML, it doesn't allow quoting properly, which is ironic because
of its name.

We went through trials with David they had us get three
different dosages 1 for each week. One week was a low
dosage of Ritalin another was a high dosage of it and the
other was a placebo. We were unaware of what dosage he was
on for what week. Boy, we were surprised what we learned.
Naturally we tried to guess what dosage he was on based on
our expectations of what we thought the medication does. I
mean we were under the same impression much of the
uninformed world is under that he would be a zombie.
Little did we know that Ritalin is basically a derivative
of speed (stimulant as you stated) Well obviously the
placebo changed nothing. The low dosage didn't seem to do
much either, in fact he received the low dosage first and
we were sure it was the placebo. Then came the high dose.
WOW! It was like watching someone whose feet were on fire.
I almost had to peel him off the ceiling. Complete
opposite of what we expected. So after the results were in
we tried Adderol this proved to be ineffective and created
mood swings. Yuck, suddenly my son had mood swings about
everything.

It sounds like your son may not have ADD or ADHD at all if that was the
result of his taking Ritalin. I'm no doctor (but I play one on USENET) but
while Ritalin is a stimulant, it has the opposite effect on people with
ADD/ADHD, it calms them down. I don't know how much research you've done on
ADD but without medication, their minds are just running in fast-forward.
Their brains are not getting enough stimulation chemically, so they have to
stimulate themselves in other ways, usually in harmful or annoying ways.
The chemical allows them to finally relax, yet at the same time, it
interferes with sleep, so go figure. While Zach would agree that being on
the drug doesn't make him feel like "himself", he would often want to take
it anyway because he doesn't like being unmedicated any more than the people
around him like it when he's that way.

He is now on Concerta 27mg which he (if we remind him 20-
30 times) in the morning before school. This is supposed
to be a once a day drug/dose. Now we know it is supposed
to only last for maybe 8 hrs but the teacher reports that
on some days it seems that it has worn off by noon. We
have also been given a 10mg dosage of Ritalin to give him
in the evenings. We try to avoid using this mainly because
I do hate giving my son a bunch of drugs. I save it for
when "I" am ready to blow up. He has an extremely high
metabolism (no duh) but I truly think I could give him
this dose a couple of hours before bed and he would still
be able to fall asleep. This stuff is in and out of his
system so fast.

Zach had a high metabolism early on, too. Actually, since he's been off the
medication, he's gained a bit of weight. The kid eats like a horse. He
also drinks fluids almost non-stop. If I drank as much soda as he did, I'd
have to spend all day in the bathroom, I don't know how he does it. I think
his leg is hollow or something.

One other big concern I have is "Drugs" in general. I have
watched several documentary type shows on this subject and
one of the problems is first the kids stop taking their
meds because the don't like the way they make them feel
then they turn to other drugs. Supposedly they are more
prone to take other drugs. Now I don't mean to pry so you
don't have to answer but has this become an issue you have
had to deal with? Believe it or not my wife and I have
NEVER taken any drugs, well we have both drank I mean lets
not get stupid, but illegal drugs, NEVER. David is going
to have a difficult enough time in life that he doesn't
need the added problem drugs will cause.

I tried drugs (pot) when I was in the USAF. Had one bad experience, nothing
major, but it was a wakeup call. I don't care for the taste of alcohol, but
forced myself to drink with friends in the military, just so I could "fit
in" My wife has never used any kind of drugs at all, but enjoys beer,
mostly because of the time she spent in Germany with her ex-husband. She'll
enjoy the occaisional beer these days is all. I do smoke, have for half my
life. Zach was caught at school a few months ago with cigarettes. He
wasn't actually caught, some kid heard Zach bragging about smoking and
turned him in. Funny because the boy rags on me constantly for smoking
(even today) and always swore he'd never smoke.

OK! Break time over time to get back to work.

Got any openings?

I got a decent job offer just last week but had to turn it down. Would have
meant a huge raise in pay and benefits, but the location sucked.


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circa Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:37:13 -0800, in
microsoft.public.cert.exam.mcse, Grant Conrad (gconrad@hotmail.com)
said,
>
> No I haven't. But I guess I would need to know what that=20
> is to consider it. What is montessori education. And if=20
> it cost a bunch of money I'm still curious but don't have=20
> it to spend.
>
> Thanks,
>
http://www.montessori.com/
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