Raising Future Adults

When he was five, my oldest son was tested for attention span issues and found to not have ADHD but they failed to identify his attention span issues as Bored Gifted Kid Syndrome (TM). It was only later, after getting involved with The TAG Project, that I concluded that was his real issue. That was an unusually good school system and even they couldn't figure out my child who was an enigma wrapped in a mystery concealed in shadows for so many years. About three years later at some new school in a different state, some teacher told us to "put him on ritalin" because she was so frustrated with dealing with him. This so enraged my very quiet husband that he actually raised his voice at that meeting and told them where to stick it. This teacher was completely out of line and was NOT even suggesting we get our child assessed for attention span issues. No, they were skipping straight to "Please drug your child for MY convenience." The child had already been assesse...