On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 09:38:49 -0700 (PDT), Chris <chrissypete2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>On Jul 1, 10:46?am, Nan <Badmam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:33:35 -0400, "Sue" <sburke9...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote:
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>> >"Stephanie" <nothanks.nevergonedoit.com> wrote in message
>> >> That sounds backward to me. A UTI test is a no-brainer. "Behavioral"
>> >> ?>issues are less cut and dried.
>>
>> >It is backwards. You always rule out medical first. Then if is nothing
>> >medical then you can safely work on the behavioral. If it is medical
and you
>> >are treating it as behavioral, then you are possibly making things
worse.
>>
>> Exactly. ?As a child I was told, "Start paying attention!" when I
>> would say I didn't hear what my mom said. ? Later, she took me to an
>> audiologist and discovered my hearing test failed in both ears due to
>> excessive wax build up. ?Once it was taken care of, I heard fine. ?My
>> mom felt pretty bad about puni****ng me for not paying attention.
>>
>> Nan
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>All 3 of my kids have had times where I noticed they were possibly
>tuning me out, so I would sneak up behind them, whisper something in
>each ear at differing times and rub my fingers together next to their
>ears from behind them to see if they could hear those sounds to rule
>something like that out. lol.
I know my 8 year old tunes me out and she's had to have a few
surgeries on her ears so I know she may not hear me at times ;-)
>I had a 1st-grade teacher tell me that my son needed his eyes checked
>because 1st grade is when children commonly need gl*****, despite
>their kingergarten-entry eye exams. My son was playing with his right
>eyebrow as he read and she believed this meant he was having vision
>problems. I explained to her that he does not do this when we are
>sitting on his bed or on the couch or floor when he reads, only when
>there is a table surface of some sort on which he can rest his elbow,
>once he could rest his elbow there, he would play with his eyebrow,
>and it was mostly because he was one who didn't like to sit still - it
>offered movement. She wouldn't leave well enough alone, so I wound up
>taking him to the doctor just to get her off of our cases. Sure 'nuf,
>his vision was and still is fine - after a $150 eye exam.
I think parents are the best judge of these things, personally. But
as you said, the simple non-invasive tests are easy to do, to
determine if anything further is needed or if it is a behavioral
issue.
Nan
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