By week 6, the teacher's email is a question, not a complaint
Teachers notice it first. Not because they're watching for it, but because a classroom asks a child to sit still, wait his turn and switch tasks thirty times a day — and that runs on emotional regulation, not effort.
So the emails come. Then the behavior reports. Then the meeting where somebody says the word "medication," and you're the one expected to have an answer ready.
In the 2019 trial, saffron was scored on the Teacher ADHD Rating Scale as well as the parent one. Over six weeks, there was no significant difference between saffron and the medication.
Weeks 4 to 6 is when most parents hear it. Not from a chart. From someone at school who had no idea anything had changed, asking what you did.
What other parents are saying
so the teacher emailed me last week and i genuinely thought here we go again. it was to ask what we'd changed. thats it. thats the whole email. i sat in the car park and cried a bit. week 5 for us.
my daughter is unbelievably picky, texture is the whole battle in this house, she won't do chewables at all. these she's fine with. i still cut one in half the first week just in case but she takes both now without me asking.
long one sorry. we've done reward charts, the whole red 40 elimination thing, occupational therapy for 8 months, magnesium, fish oil, olly, melatonin which worked but i hated relying on it. i was hesitant because it looked like more of the same. two months in the difference is homework. it's twenty minutes now instead of the entire evening. it's not a miracle and every kid is different, and it isn't cheap. but it's the first thing that stuck.
nothing for the first 10 days and i had already decided it was a waste. then somewhere in week 2 the mornings just got quieter. i wasn't even looking for it. if you're 10 days in and about to quit, don't yet.
if you're sitting on the fence about this the way i was for two months, this is your sign. that's all.
we forgot them on a week away over spring break. didn't think anything of it. by day 4 my husband asked what was going on with him. i genuinely hadn't connected it until i unpacked the bag and found the pouch. that was more convincing to me than anything on this page honestly.
told my parenting group about these and 4 of them ordered. two have come back saying the same thing about bedtime. that never happens with anything i recommend lol
does this actually do anything though? i've spent so much money on stuff like this. probably $600 at this point between the omega 3s and two different saffron ones off amazon. genuinely asking, not being rude
we did 6 months on medication and it worked, i won't pretend it didn't, but he stopped eating lunch and stopped being funny. talked to our pediatrician about coming off over summer and trying something else first. we're 7 weeks in. he's eating. he's annoying again. i'll take annoying.