Posted on 05/30/2006 5:18:59 PM PDT by WildPlum
Thanks, you spoke for a lot of us.
Morels they are GREAT and fun to hunt for. Fried of coarse since I am from the south.
ADHD + sugary cereal = lost boy.
If they weren't Lucky Charms, however, he would have been a goner.
"Now that he's been found, Thompson's aunt, Teddi Gray, told 9NEWS she wants to treat him to hot dogs, pickles and raspberry slurpees."
Lady, feed him that and he'll vanish again.
Thank God he was found...But you hafta wonder if he wasn't in some sort of stupor from his forced drug addiction and wandered off in a daze...
Luckily he didn't wander into Jack's Valley. They would have found him trying to complete the obstacle course while being screamed at by a caring sensitive Cadre.
Good news! Thanks for posting.
LoL.. very suspicious... ;)
And fried only in butter...!~
I'd tend to agree with you in many cases, but not all, based on my experiences coaching my now-8 yr old son's baseball team.
We had a kid on his team last year who had ADHD (or at least some affliction) and it was severe, and it was not a discipline issue. He was not a bad kid and by the end of the season he had really grown on me.
But sheesh, was he tough to coach. On some days I had to literally stand next to him in the field to try to keep his focus on the game. Sometimes he couldn't even hold the bat up to swing. Other times he'd hit the ball and run to third base. If you bat 3 times in a game and you know to run to first base the first two times and you run to third the last time, something's wrong. Some games he would be quiet and lethargic and others he'd be hanging on the fence in the dugout.
I really felt for his parents and they were very appreciative of the extra effort the other coaches and I gave to him.
Do I think people jump to the ADHD conclusion too quickly? Yes. I think some doctors may be giving these drugs out "upon request" rather than diagnosing an actual problem (if it can really be measured). But I think there are kids who really have problems.
I assume while you were coaching, the kid was severely drugged up...Wonder what he was like without the drugs...
There really are a few kids who have ADHD, and can be shown with computer assisted evaluation to have impaired learning and to show significant improvement with Ritalin.
No doubt you are right about many of the cases, but for the ones who are significantly impaired, they can't learn and then are left out and left behind and then get into a lot of trouble.
Choosing Ritalin for a significantly impaired child rather than abandoning him to a life prone to crime is not a bad choice.
Without the Ritalin, they don't respond to discipline. They are too impulsive and distractible to learn in school or to learn from mothers and fathers disciplining them at home.
A large part of good discipline is being able to praise a child when he does well, not just scold them when they stray from the rules of proper behavior. With Ritalin these significantly impaired children can achieve in school and can learn to follow the rules of good behavior at home, and can finally get some praise for a change.
"it's made up, in my opinion, so that working Moms and parents who don't want or don't have the stomach to discipline their kids can have an excuse to medicate them."
You have no clue.
Sometimes (but not in all) I think symptoms can be taken care of by changes in diet. My six year old will not focus at times and would probably seem like he has ADD, but those are the times we know he has had too many carbs or sugar and needs more protein.
Not always... There were some games where his dad would stop by to tell us that his son was having "a bad day", which I always took to mean that he didn't take his meds that day.
Not to judge someone else's parenting, but I could never understand how they could drop him off to us like that and go sit in the bleachers and let us deal with it. Occasionally when things got really wacky, his father would come into the dugout and sit with him, but rarely.
He was certainly not a bad kid - there was never any issues with him getting along with the other players - he mostly interacted with the coaches and his communications skills were kind of poor. It was mainly an issue of focus, which is always an issue with at least 2 or 3 kids on any team I have coached, but his was the worst case I ever saw.
yeah ok.
Thanks be to God!!
My son had a major allergic reaction to artificial colors. His symptoms were exactly like those kids allegedly diagnosed with ADD. I didn't feed him sugary, color-laden cereals, candy, soda, etc and he was just fine. I always knew when his friends gave him Skittles or some such garbage...he was near impossible to deal with for a 24 hour period...he was so hyped up.
There are way more colors in food products...especially for kids...than when I was growing up. Yeah, there were candies and bakery items with them back then, but the concentration and brightness (ie: amount used) is incredible in most kids...and adults diets these days.
Oh, my son is now eighteen-years-old and occassionally partakes of a soda...piece of candy, etc...but for the most part, is uninterested in that stuff...he loves fruit...which is expensive, but not nearly as expensive as if he ate junk food as his source of nourishment.
Praise God, my husband and I stayed the course and didn't give in to our son's begging. He learned real quick, we weren't going to budge in that department. He received a little candy or colored sugar at Christmas, Easter, Halloween, and on his Birthday from us...but not the rest of those years.
Just saw this on the overnight news. Hurray for Evan!
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