Daydreaming as an occasional way of coping with the difficulties of life, dealing with the difficulties of life, dealing with frustrations, disappointments, and hopes, may be expected as a child approaches the beginning of his school years. But it is the adolescent who is the daydreaming champion. His motionless idleness does not mean that his mind is as slack as his body. He is doing something going somewhere inside that skull of his, and it is a good idea to let him alone to do or to go. For a normal amount of daydreaming is not harmful: it can definitely be constructive. It lets off steam; it broadens a child�s world and permits him to set his own high goals.
But too much of anything is not healthful. If a child daydreams at the expense of playing with friends or getting his schoolwork done, or if the child�s not quite sure which are his daydreams and which are his realities. The child�s probably exceeding a healthy limit of fantasy.
Teachers today are in my opinion the biggest contributor of a child�s ADHD problem. Let me explain my theory on this. Today�s teachers don�t really care about there students there are too many children. So they pick out a few they will help out more then the others and the ones how just can�t get the rite kind of help act out. So they are marked as a problem child. Let me rephrase what I said earlier. It�s not that the teachers don�t care because most of them do. There are too many children for any one teacher to give the help that is needed. This is not the child�s fault but the child suffers, and is put on some drug because he or she couldn�t get the help that was needed.
An over dreamy child is retreating from his or her problems rather than meeting them constructively. Parents and teachers should work together and try to find out what the pressures are on this child, why the child has to have relief, and how relief can be given to the child. Frequently, when school and home give a child their patience and support, and reduce their pressures on him, his daydreaming can be brought back to a more reasonable level.
Robert Emler: Daydreaming or ADHD. How and when did it start. Why is it not getting any better?
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