Medication Vacations

This is just more of a personal post and something I ran into last week. I have 2 boys in Cub Scouts and I volunteer every summer to be a Cub Scout Day Camp counselor for a week(It's a week away from work). I ran into something that I had never heard of before and hope to never to again. "Medication Vacation" is a term when parents take their kids off their medication for issues that they deal with during the school year for the summer.  The unfortunate consequence is that the unpaid volunteer at the camp has no idea why your child is bouncing off the wall, hitting other kids, or generally telling you to shove it. Then the poor camp nurse has to delve through the medical records to figure out if there is an issue and has to ask the child if he's been taking his medication. That's where I heard the term "Medication Vacation" So please don't take your kids off their medication for the summer and then do a dump and run on a unpaid volunteer to be a babysitter for your child from 730 to 5pm.  I'm fine with dealing challenging kids but have some consideration for the volunteer and talk to them about your child.  I have to make sure all kids have a safe environment to have fun in. Plus you keep doing this you won't have volunteers to run programs for your children.