Re: ADD
Rick Gill (rgill@PRIMENET.COM)
Mon, 6 Mar 1995 22:29:58 -0700
At 02:47 PM 3/4/95 -0600, Linda Gremillion wrote:
>Our Troops experience with ADD kids has been pretty much as described in
>the other ADD messages on this list.
>
>It is absolutely up to the parents to provide the foundation for ADD
>Scouts to stay in, and advance, in Scouting. We have one boy, now a Life
>Scout, and a cinch to make Eagle, who we leaders would have cheerfully
>hung from a lampost on several occasions. We suspended him once, warned
>him several times, lectured him often. The reason we did not ask him to
>leave was that his mother joined my committee, worked hard, was always
>there to back us up, explained to me and others from day one what we were
>in for, explained his medication and always saw he took it. She is a
>jewel and a saint. And she has another one like him at home. After
>having her and the Scout in the Troop now for four years I have put away
>the rope and would do about anything to help him. Let me add he is not a
>basket case. He has developed into a positive force and a leader in the
>Troop and in his high school. He fully understands his situation and, I
>believe, is outgrowing the problem.
>
>Others have not been so fortunate. We now make it clear to ADD parents
>coming in what we expect of THEM after our experience above. Too many
>parents expect us to carry the boy despite his limitations.
>
>My $.02.
>
>Bill Gremillion
>CC T515
>Eagle District
>Alamo Area Council
>San Antonio
Amen!
Our Troops experience has been almost a mirror. While our experience is a
little over
a year with ADD scouts, we had two things happen. One scout (see above about
rope and
lamp post) is now almost a star scout but due to a great single Mom. And we
basically
feel the same way she does all she can and is at almost every meeting and
can be counted
on. Another family dropped TWO brothers with ADD, and no warning,
instructions and
willingness to help. Thier sons were found at the lake with matches after
lights were out
at a state park we were at. I shudder to think had an adult not had too much
coffee and
had to take a midnite stroll. After another strange incident an adult
corrected her sons
at a fund raiser she got majorly irate and we SUGGESTED that she find a
smaller troop
where her sons could get more one-on-one (We were/are at 40 boys). So we've also
seen the gamut.
Rick Gill
CC Troop 444
Sierra Vista, Az
...Used to be a Beaver
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