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The Garden of Dreams.

The table is now rebuilt and technically it might be a bar. It has only two legs, figured it was not so knickable with only two.

BBQ arrangements all left with the school to carry out. Parents, pupils school govenors and VIP’s only.

Now this is the thing? When I look back at my education secondary, junior and primary, which must be over 40 years ago now…….. I remember some badly behaved and problematic children with some degree of learning disability. A few years ago I may well have agreed with you if you suggested their was no such thing as ADHD, just bad behaviour. Now I would strongly disagree. I believe it to be real, and have worked with a number of children on two diferent projects who have medicated and unmedicated versions of it.

It is very hard to get results with these children and I compare them with my school contemporaries I mentioned earlier from 40 years ago and there was nothing like it going on. These children can not carry out a task for longer than a few minuites before running off to disrupt others. They are unable to controll this no matter how many detensions, exclusions or even sympathy, patience and time invested in their well being and development.

So: is there chemicals in our diet, something in the water which makes this terrible thing happen? Does it wear off and do you grow out of it in early adulthood? There seems so much of it about in the younger generations, my childrens contemporaries and classmates are afflicted.

Yet non of mine are?


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