My Child Is Not a ‘Bad Kid’

ADHD makes school difficult for my son — but adults shaming and excluding him because of it is its own challenge

Robin Finn
Human Parts
Published in
5 min readAug 19, 2019

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WWhen my son was four years old, he had a hard time sitting still. He was impulsive, emotional, and challenging. Preschool was, to put it mildly, HELL. The evil, preschool director had a life-sized likeness of my son on her wall…

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Robin Finn
Human Parts

Founder of Heart. Soul. Pen.® for women writers. Book coming April 2024! Essays in @NYTimes @WashPo @LATimes. Author: “Restless in L.A.” www.robinfinn.com