Why do kids need Ritalin? Sure, because they’re anxious. But WHY are they anxious???

Education vs. Business blogspot ^ | 8/19/2013 | Bruce Deitrick Price

[isom35]

The Enterprise once needed Ritalin to fight an outbreak of Rigelian fever. Or was it Ryetalyn? Hmmmmm.....

[potlatch]

Bad parenting leads to rowdy children that bad teachers can’t handle. Lack of discipline. I saw it start happening when I taught Physical Ed, long ago. Teachers, who couldn’t control their classrooms started demanding that some students be ‘medicated’.

Good teachers will not like that statement but I found it to be true and saw it happen a lot. When I was in school, long ago, there were NO undisciplined children - after the first time!

[BruceDeitrickPrice]

Bon,

That is a sad and strange story, what those overweight people wanted.

I tend to think recess and exercise should be considered necessary and nonnegotiable. As you say, those things are just as important as anything else going on in the classroom.

[kevkrom]

My eldest isn’t ADHD but can be a bit unfocused at times. I let him have a Mountain Dew sometimes before a baseball/soccer game (he doesn’t really drink soda otherwise), and it seems to help his focus, but that might be the placebo effect in his case - he believes it will help him, so it does.

[Truth2012]

I have been saying it for many years. There is no ADD/ADHD outbreak. It was invented. I actually know it was invented, because I know for a fact that therapists had to put different tests together, which were not designed to go together, to come up with a diagnosis for “ADD”.

Saw it with my own two eyes.

ADD is a myth. If a child can focus on ANYTHING, they do not have a focusing problem.

If they can concentrate on video games, they have NO focusing problem.

Yes it really is AS simple as: Children are bored in school because school is a horrible and abusive place, designed to make many simple jobs for simple people.

Schools are so much more a function of welfare for the adults, than education for the children.

WHY would anyone allow THAT system to define their children and their children’s future? Wake up. Parents are not raising their children to have self control. It is a power play between children and adults. We have conditioned our children that if they want attention FROM us, they have to have “ADD”.

People who medicate their children for ADD are setting themselves up for suicide and drug abuse at an alarming rate.

IF you for a moment think your child’s adolescence was trying.. just wait for a drug using, depressed teenager.

[easylearnreading]

I agree that some high school students struggle to survive all day in school, lol some even consider it’s like prison. He/she feels defeated and stupid when they can’t do a simple thing, which is done easily by their friends. Why is it happening? Is it because WE as parents rely on outsiders to do what are rightly parental tasks? Teaching starts in the womb, and continues at super rates until they reach around 7, their brains are so hungry for and to absorb information their abilities are super human, literally. Take responsibility for your child’s future; give them the start they need to excel in life links.

Daniel P. Warren