Which brings us to the second reason for our disappointment in viewing the documentary. It failed to address in more detail that kids in America are over-diagnosed (this was unfortunately discounted by the emphasis on the Scientology zealots). Think about it. Four times more Kids in America are on some form of behavior-modifying drugs than anywhere else in the world. It is a telling and undeniable fact. Are kids in other parts of the world in need of catching up to our level of drug intake? Are kids elsewhere in the world any different than kids in the States? Having a multi-cultural perspective along with the experience of having lived in France,Spain and Germany, we think not.

The problem with over-diagnosis is that teachers and psychologists place most of the emphasis on the child when there is a problem with his/her behavior. We tend to treat our children who misbehave "as problems" instead of "having problems". Naively, we thought that the psychologist would help us understand and get behind our son's behavior. Was it his teacher? Was it the structure? Was he bored? Was he over-stimulated? Why is it Nicolas was "normal" until he started pre-school? These were the questions we were desperate to have answered. Instead, we received a multiple-choice questionnaire, the subjective basis for which our son would have been categorized for life ADD/ADHD and subsequently put on drugs. We're sorry, but our son deserves more explanation than the outcome of one test.

We've learned a lot in the past year and one-half and during that time, we've learned that the type of teacher Nicolas has makes one hell of a difference. His current one, god bless her, is firm yet kind. She likes and accepts our son, and Nicolas knows this. Oh, he can sense this much more than any teacher or psychologist or parent or specialist or all others who claim they know children's behaviors, will ever begin to understand.