Out Here, ADHD just doesn’t “exhist”
Posted by SuperADDMom on June 14, 2009
My son checking out the tadpoles on an evening jaunt on a back country road
So, right off the bat, before I go offending someone who has an ADHD child, in the city, who attends school. I’m not saying rural living and/or homeschooling is a “cure” or that you should pack up and move to the country and start homeschooling your child. Rural life is not for everyone. I can understand that.
But having grown up in the country all my life, and having tried the fast pace of the city, the rushed lifestyle, the schedules ” and all that jazz”…Out here in the country, I just “fit ” better. My kids just “fit” better. ADHD just doesn’t exist especially when your ADHD kids classroom is outdoors catching snakes, sitting in the ditch yelling into culverts studying echoes and how sound travels, finding out where tadpoles come from, naming plants, and getting your feet dirty while picking rocks for a campfire pit.
I’m not trying to paint a rosy picture of rural living…my kids are not medicated for their neurodiversities, and they do drive me crazy some days, when they grate on each other’s last nerve and need a break from each other, and I’m about ready to lose my mind from my Concerta running out at about 5 pm, and I get scatterbrained myself, and there is still supper and bedtimes to be done.
Some days it sucks when we have to go to town or the day to run errands for the month, and we’re out stuck in a vehicle most of the day and they are about ready to climb the inside of the van walls. But if I had to parent my kids, in the city, sending them to school on a schedule, for THEM and my OWN ADD, and they were unmedicated. I’d probably be in a rubber room at the nearest city hospital!
Got ADHD? Rural life is the Rx 
Its just more laid back, and everyone is a bit more forgiving.
Oh look…Cows!
