First Star I See. Jaye Andras Caffrey
the way back to class, though, I started to feel bad again. I couldn’t believe my mom actually told Mr. Rodriguez about that AD/HD stuff. My dad would never have done that. I remembered when I told him about what Dr. Learner had said. He really hit the roof!
“What nonsense!” Dad said. “The only problem with you, pumpkin, is that you don’t apply yourself!”
“What does that mean—‘apply myself?’” I asked.
“It just means that you don’t try hard enough. But don’t worry,” Dad said. “Psychologists like Dr. Learner are not real doctors. They have to find something wrong with perfectly normal kids like you and Mark or else they can’t get parents to pay them lots of money to play with their kids once a week. Mark is just high-spirited. He’s a Tom Sawyer type, that’s all.”
I’m not sure what “high-spirited” means, but I’m pretty sure Tom Sawyer is a character on a television show that my dad liked when he was a kid. Anyway, no matter what Dad says, Mark is really hyper. His teachers are always calling Mom about him.
In preschool he ran all around the classroom during story hour. And during his first few weeks of kindergarten, his teacher complained that every time they did art, he mixed all the paints together and snipped the construction paper into such tiny pieces that no one could use it. Once he gets started on an activity, though, there’s no prying him away from it! Unless, of course, you offer him something better, like Mom does.
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