What struck me about the article was the throwaway line: listened to your brief and vague report that he seemed to have trouble sitting still in kin

What struck me about the article was the throwaway line: listened to your brief and vague report that he seemed to have trouble sitting still in kindergarten, Where I live, where my three boys went to kindergarten (barnehage her in Norway), pre-school is all about physical activity and socialisation. It's not like school, there are no lessons to sit still for; instead there are things to do, painting, cooking, laying tables, climbing frames, mud to be crawled in and puddles to splash. The children are of course expected to not be disruptive and the staff will work with the children to ensure that they behave well. The end result seems to be, on the whole, self-confident, well behaved children who can be taken anywhere with little or no risk that they will be disruptive. As far as I know the kinds of diagnoses that seem common in the US are rare here.