Posted on 09/04/2007 8:16:26 AM PDT by mombyprofession
If you are too stupid to get your kid to behave without drugging or slapping them, then they are already at a serious disadvantage with the intelligent.
100% bullshit.
Nope, just a "boy"...girls are apparently largely immune to this fictional "disorder"
Yeah, it's a "folk remedy" that dates back to Old Testament times.
It works wonders, and it needs to be rediscovered and made popular again.
Lucky you. In some parts of this sick nation, teachers and school administrators have managed to get parents charged with "medical neglect" for refusing to medicate their children for this nonsensical "diagnosis".
I have a nephew who actually was diagnosed with ADHD and had the meds until he was a teenager. This boy could destroy a room within a few minutes when he was on the meds. When he was off, he just could not stop moving very fast. His stepdad (my brother-in-law) was/is always very strict with him.
When I was growing up a ruler seemed to work a helluva lot better than Ritalin.
And when I was growing up, no kid would ever tell their parents that their teacher smacked their hand with a ruler for fear that their parents would pick up where the teacher left off.
Amen - when we were stationed in Panama, the DoDDS system had a school “prescriptionist”, who prescribed Ritalin for every “misbehaving” kid. It was a travesty and, to my mind, criminal. Boys don’t sit still unless you make ‘em! I know, I was one!
Colonel, USAFR
I had a mother and father that were interested in my upbringing and actively worked to harness all that energy and direct it into something productive. They didn't drug me and plunk me in front of the TV.
Does ADHD exist? Sure - I've seen it up close and personal - and, the positive effect of a well-monitored treatment program. But 1 kid in 10? Forget it. Lazy teacher, lazier parents are the root cause of that number.
B. S.
It’s called being a toddler or a kid who is subjected to a mind-numbing routine of TV, video games, and inane adult-organized activities. Sure there are real cases of ADHD, but it sure as heck isn’t 9% of the population. As for ADD, which really should never be lumped together with ADHD, it’s very real and I have it, but it’s not really a “disorder”. It’s a normal variation which happens to be maladaptive for today’s information-based economy and society, and it’s quite likely that 9% or more of the population has it.
A hundred years ago and for centuries before that, it was exactly how everyone wanted their kids to be, because it was very beneficial in an economy based on agriculture and simple manual trades. ADD is characterized by difficulty concentrating while sitting still and processing even moderately challenging or non-repetitive information, and a tendency to hyperfocus — unintentionally — on simple repetitive tasks (mainly those with a large physical component, but things like video games and repetitive computer-based tasks often produce the same effect). A kid who’d quickly become fidgety and distracted when sitting with a book, and who when set to manually planting or picking endless rows of a crop, or preparing vegetables for canning, would quickly become intensely focused on the task and stick with it for the many hours necessary to get the job done, was the ideal kid. That explains why the trait is so prevalent in the population.
ADHD = lazy parents and teachers
It never occurs to these people that perhaps the criteria for diagnosing ADHD are just plain ridiculous.
A couple of diseases that really need permanent cures are “political correctness” and “the dumbing down of people”!
Coca Cola has ruined us all.
I've started to not-so-idly wonder if the rise in autism rates and ADD/ADHD rates isn't a direct reaction to our overwhelmingly fast-paced culture. Some kids can't handle the over-stimulation and just opt out/shut down, and some kids embrace the chaos and become hyper.
More significantly IMO, it parallels the changes in education to involve sitting still virtually all day in school (some school districts have even eliminated recess for elementary school students, in order to "spend more time on task"), and going home with a 30 pound bag of books and spending all evening sitting still doing assignments. On top of that, most public school curricula are now heavily process-oriented, with very little content which involves needing to get the right answer -- it's essentially directionless and non-goal-oriented, which is a perfect recipe for programming young brains to lack the ability to focus on a clearly defined task with a clearly defined goal.
LOL
Oh, BS.
“Back in the old days the pill was a slap.”
Once when I was 8 or 9 and wouldn’t stop complaining that I was bored, my father walked over and hit me on top of the head. As I was rubbing my head I asked him why he did that. He dead-panned, now you have something to do.
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