Hi,

My DS is just a toddler and I know this website is not really for advice about supplements, but since you specifically asked -- I saw a remarkable difference in him in the week around when I started him on a vitamin E supplement (just a cup of chocolate flavored almond milk every day, which he thinks of as a treat). Kids are all so unique in their genetics and what they eat etc (one might be right to say my toddler just had a coincidental development spurt that week) that its a shot in the dark for me to even mention it. But I was taken aback at the difference, I started not looking for behavior change but just worrying he wasn't getting enough vitamin E as its mainly in nuts and spinach type veggies, and I had read something suggesting kids were generally not getting enough. The main difference that week was an improvement in tolerance of frustration, and seeming a bit mellower, so that he didn't get to the totally frustrated level quite as fast or often.

I chose almond milk over a pill as there is more than one chemical version of vitamin E and I hoped a natural product would have more complexity than a supplement, be more food-like.

Random abstract of a study showing over half of 2-5 year olds (in their study location in Nebraska) have questionable vitamin E levels:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/...ubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

Hey you could always try it first on you... do a study of one....see if your time-to-frustrate-with-Home-School-teaching gets longer, LOL.

I think of myself as a 6 year old and I can not imagine my parents having success home schooling me. I would have just said no no no, whereas at school at least the teacher was a authority figure I didn't feel quite as comfortable arguing with. School was boring and I didn't learn much until high school, but I'm also glad I didn't have a reason to feel conflict with my mom. I would imagine home schooling would work wonderfully for some kids and not well for some others (like me.)

Polly