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Originally Posted by viet_mom
Hello there. I have also been away from the board and seeing really old posts, sorry. I ended up not putting Vietbabe on meds. She's in her second year of kindergarten and the teacher says she is somewhere around the low to mid range in terms of understanding the stuff at school. She is still COMPLETLEY confident and happy/giggly and she also behaves for me (and pretty good at school too). So while she is definitely ADHD, I'm not going to do the meds. Truth be told...I don't even care if she is at the bottom of her class (someone's gotta be) as long as she is progressing and is happy and confident. When she's working age, she can be an artist, or marry well, or live at home with me forever. I see the hell my sister is going through with her bipolar kid (suicidal thoughts at 7?). Then I look at my own kid and she wakes up singing songs and kissy kissy and makes me "surprise" art projects with hearts on them all day. Goes to bed every night at 8 pm with no fuss. I'm not going to do ANYTHING that messes with that. I'm just sick about my poor sister and her daughter. They've tried meds and when things continued badly (just in a "different" way), they took her off all meds thinking they'd just "deal with things." But then she wasn't even able to function, so their lives are a never ending experimentation of upping this med, decreasing that med, adding this med, etc. I wish I could do something for her.
P.S., I'm worried about finances these days. If you had a 5.5% 30 year fixed mortgage (with around 300K in principal), would you use your extra money to pay it off since savings plans are absurd, like $.002% annual interest? Thanks.
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I'll answer differently than the rest. I like to pay down the mortgage with extra cash. Because I don't like owing nobody nothing.
Note that I've also never bought a share of public stock, because I like to only invest in businesses I can understand and deal with on a personal level, so take this as investment thoughts from a fiscal curmudgeon.
Sounds like your daughter is a charmer.
