[Toby06]

I'm sorry you are incorrect, but ritalin is effective in real cases of ADD where " some good old fashion discipline" has nothing to do with the disease. You solution is similar to beating the snot out of a baby because they have a cold.

Had my kid not had ritalin, later followed by different meds, I doubt she would have made it to high school. She has real ADHD, whereas I doub yours had it, or had as severe a case as my kid.

[bella1]

I've never "beat the snot" out of anyone, and I never have believed that ADD is a disease and never will. Yes there are children with true mental deficiencies, always have been, but there is a huge difference between that and behavior problems, which is mostly what ADD/ADHD is a result of. There is no way that in a classroom of say 24 or so children that 10 of them have a "disease", but that is what the popular culture of today wants us to believe. Interestingly, many of my daughter's former high school classmates (now ages 24-25) went to college to become special education teachers because there is such a "need" for them. I love nothing more than to talk with them now after some of them have been teaching special ed for a few years. Funny, but their opinions are that most of these kids just need a good turning over the knee.... and this from the generation that grew up believing that ADD was a "disease".