Posted on 08/19/2010 3:38:18 AM PDT by tlb
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My local elementary school has a second grade teacher that is notorious for suggesting to the parents that ADD/ADHD may be an issue for a large number of her students. Over the years, I have seen regular kids put on ritalin because the parent(s) believe the teacher. She suggested that my daughter may have an issue and further stated that a large % of the class is “at risk”. I suggested she had been teaching too long and that medicine was available for HER to take (not the kids). Just a thought
Novartis Pharmaceuticals, a Swiss Company developed Ritalin years ago. This drug has not been widely prescribed in Europe. Novartis has funded and sponsored a US marketing campaign or infrastructure conducive to their drugging of American children who are labeled AHAD, etc. with seminars, trips, rewards, etc. to mainstream this chemical solution. Old story here they are :
“Novartis is designing our global headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, as an inspiring environment that fosters innovation and business excellence, ultimately helping Novartis meet and exceed business objectives. To be competitive in the healthcare industry, we must drive innovation as well as recruit and retain top talent. Fueling innovation will help us continue to bring new and better medicines to patients.”
“They took away basketball at recess...”
Schools have taken away a lot of the activities that actually burned energy like running, tag, red rover etc... A family friend of ours have a daughter and it was suggested that she be put on ritalin. They, however, signed her up for multiple sports and had her exercise at least an hour a day. This exercise “calmed” her and burned off the energy. Kids are NOT suppose to sit for hours. They need to burn off the energy and if not, they fidget. Just a thought
Exactly. Thank you.
College's today all across the country are now dominated by women who are in the majority. Everyone wonders, why? You know the answer, boys become men if allowed.
You mean to tell me that lazy education bureacrats and parents are too quick to diagnose problem children as having ADHD instead of taking the time and effort to guide and discipline them???????
What a shock.
Your son probably has a different way of learning that the schools probably are either too afraid to to teach or are too underfunded to teach. I was like that too as a kid. Get a tutor for him and try to keep him in school only for PE and the like, he’ll learn nothing in school.
My daughter was diagnosed with ADHD, talkative, michevious, and never slept.
Looked exhausted all the time, big circles under her eyes.
Had tonsils the size of boulders.
time passed, tonsils diminished and ADHD vanished.
Read a couple of years later that sleep apnea in children mimics ADHD.
Those old mds knew something when they sometimes took tonsils out for behavioral problems.
I don’t doubt his intelligence at all. He is a hands on learner. When he was in the 6th grade they gave him Theater as an elective, I was like, here we go! Well, it was not acting but making puppets, etc. He did great!
He does not watch tv, play video games or go on the computer, he is outside morning til night and loves sports.
I am home schooling him now, he is in the 8th grade. He wants to go back to school to play baseball in HS.
ADHD is 100% BS
Kids fall into three categories:
Kids being kids
Overtired/too much sugar/too much overstimulation through technology
delinquents
The second two are directly related to the parents and upbringing
In rare cases, a “bad seed” may appear, but they are anomalies and not statistically relevant
“ADHD is what I call BCS—Bad Child Syndrome.”
I should be very angry with a comment like that - but I at one time felt the same way. I don’t anymore. ADHD IS REAL.
Yes, it may be over-diagnosed, I’m not disputing that, and in homes all across American the lack of discipline affects a child’s maturity and growth, I’m not disputing that either. But until I seen ADHD for my self with my own child, I hadn’t a clue what parents were going through.
We first were warned by the teacher and principle of his Christian school when he was 4 years old. He was not grasping directions like the other kids. The teacher would say grab a crayon, and a piece of paper, and sit in a circle. He would only remember the “sit in a circle” part, so he would be the only kid in the circle without the crayon and paper. That is what happened day after day, after day. And your diagnoses, is we should have been spanking him more?
When he was 6 we first tried him on the medication Adderall, and the difference was night and day.
The day before the medication I asked him to write from 1 to 100 in boxes I made on a paper, an exercise any kid at that age should have no problem with. He got to 33, and many of the number were skipped, backwards, or unreadable, or partially out of the box.
24 hours after being on Adderall during the same part of the day I tested him again. He got all the way too 99. No numbers were skipped, they all were legible and in the boxes, and only a couple of numbers were backwards, the usual ones, like a 3 here and 6 there.
The teachers noticed a huge difference too.
He is now 8, we have changed medications a few times because he was not gaining weight fast enough, but he is now doing fine. And he is now on a new non-narcotic medication. There are several new medications on the market now, without the same side-affects that the old Ritalin.
And yes, as if were any of your business, we do spank him when he needs it.
He is very smart, just physical instead of cerebral. I worry about him in HS, the college prep curriculum is not going to serve him well.
When my older boys were younger I was also college, college, college. I am not against college at all, however, not everyone is cut out for college immediately our of HS. My oldest, smart as a whip but really didn’t know what he wanted to do with himself but I insisted he go to school, he was miserable, he joined the Army and LOVES it. He plans on using his GI bill in the future. My middle son is doing the same thing, he graduates in May and is going straight into the military.
That’s because most of the time it’s a discipline problem the “teacher” can’t solve. I went through this BS with my son and he’s doing great in school these days, no drugs were needed to “fix” the problem. The problem turned out to be the “teachers” and their assault on the confidence of boys.
What makes teachers think they are qualified to diagnose a medical condition and recommend treatment? Many are hard core leftists that don’t have the ability to reason yet they are experts in psychological disorders?
Quite often a diagnosis of ADHD abrogates a parent’s responsibility to use discipline to control behavior, imo.
When I was in the 3rd grade in 1966 we had a visitor to the class. My teacher introduced me as a good student who is “sometimes on Cloud 9”. Thank God there was no Ritalin back then.
my neighbor was a social worker for a school. She recently quit her job party due to the pressure she was under to diagnose kids with ADHD. The school would receive additional funding for each diagnosis. Sickening.
You're about 10 years older than I am but fortunately I had graduated from College before the big Ritalin run hit in the 90s. I think my whole generation was fortunate. The ones 5-10 years behind me started getting doped out of their gourd at a young age.
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