Starting Kindergarten and having trouble staying in seat

[Kristen26]

My 5 year old daughter started Kindergarten about 3 weeks ago. Her entire life she's been described as "busy" and she had trouble in preschool with staying in her seat and during rug time. I have a few concerns now that she has started school. She continues to have trouble staying in her seat during class and during lunchtime. The teacher says she gets up and wonders. She also got into trouble and I've already received a call from the principal. She and another little girl were throwing food at the lunch table at a little boy who was making faces at them. I think we have a handle on that, as she said from now on she will tell a grown up if someone is doing something she doesn't like. My 3rd issue is about a week before school started she started behaving like her hands, feet and lower legs were itchy. I tried changing to all fragance free and dye free soaps but the behavior continues. She is not making and marks on her skin and her skin shows no sign of rash or dry skin. I took her to a pediatrician who thought the behavior was related to all the stress of starting school and new classes for gymnastics and dance. (she moved up to the K class). The pediatrician even mentioned OCD and when I told her about the not staying in her seat problem she also mentioned ADHD. Too much for me....I left the appt crying. I don't want to label my child at such a young age. I'm not sure what to do to help her. It's so hard to watch her wiggle, fidgit and move around all over the place when she is expected to sit still. Any advice or suggestions I would appreciate so much!

[allmymarbles]

I reread the posting to which I took exception. The problem is that you were not "unambiguous," and that what you said could be interpreted as supporting engineering for the greater good.

[deanne65]

I make use of sobering statistics on children who have been poisoned, I ironically mention that "therapeutizing" the (mis)behavior of children serves its "purpose", and I even mention the upshot of the present approach of social engineering, specifically, that of altering of individuals so as to serve the means and ends of the mental health enterprise, and you still think that I am being pro-psychiatry? To set the record staight, I am a psychiatric abolitionist because of the continued practices of psychiatry, and its allied fields, of coercions as cure and its ongoing excuses!

[deanne65]

"I have ever had a problem with my native language". Please tell me what you found to be offensive in my critique. I don't know how much more unambiguous I could have been in my critique.

[allmymarbles]

I have ever had a problem with my native language. I think you should reread what you wrote.

[deanne65]

You obviously did not understand my message whatsoever! George Orwell is a poor example of the kind of society I have in mind. I would say that "Brave new world" would be closer to what the psychiatrization of our culture approaches. SHEESH!

[allmymarbles]

Serves what purpose? Deterioration of the psyche? Obliteration of individuality? Destruction of passion? I am 100 per cent glad I am not you. I have healthy children and grandchildren and not single one of them has ever been engineered for mediocrity. Big Brother is not benevolent. Read George Orwell's "1984," if you haven't already.