What is the trade-off? How can they make that decision? Obviously, it's individual, but what would be your guidance?

Yeah, so there needs to be more, right? There needs to be more considered and there needs to be kind of a more intentional engagement with medicines if that choice is the choice that's made.

And I say that more things considered, by that I mean, the brain is responding to its inputs, right? And so ADHD is a label that we assign to certain human bodies and whether or not that label is appropriate, that's for another book.

But that label is because there are constellation, there's a group of symptoms that this human body is exhibiting, right? But those symptoms don't just pop out on their own without an input to explain them.

And so we need to get more curious about the inputs, the part before, right? And so there are things to be done, even if we're taking medicines.

And we will talk about side effects, certainly.

I do unpack side effects a lot in the book because I feel quite strongly about them.

let's pick that and yes obviously this child is not able to focus at school and teachers are upset and they're not keeping up with their homework what should mom do