This is simply an idiotic post. Spanking is fine, but ADHD is real and requires a little different approach.
I should be very angry with a post like your- 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 9, 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 it were any of your business, we do spank him when he needs it.