Learning Issues: Infant, First Years

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Needing Ways to Handle Child with ADD?

My sister adopted a foster child a year ago and when she got him, she was informed that he had ADD and was on medication. Both my sister and her husband don't like the idea of medicating a child and took him off his meds, but for this whole past school year he has been constantly getting into trouble at school. He is not near as bad at home, but the school is fed up and my sister is at her wits end even to the point of wondering if she made a mistake. Which we know is not the truth, but that she is just upset about not knowing what to do. ...