[metmom]

I think it is an excuse to drug kids to keep them in line.

I think that having kids grow up on farms where they got a good chance to burn off all that excess energy milking cows, throwing around bails of hay, chopping wood, gardening, fishing, etc. would cure what's wrong with a lot of kids. Shoving a child that's meant to move ( all of them in fact) into an artificial environment where they are required to sit still for long periods of time INDOORS is a recipe for disaster. Small wonder there's problems.

I wonder what the incidence of kids diagnosed with ADD and ADHD is for farm kids or homeschooled kids?

[SoftballMominVA]

I can tell you something anecdotal. I asked my daughter's psychiatrist if she would have been better off if I had continued to homeschool her and she told me there was no way to know either way and that ADHD certainly did happen in homeschooling. She said about 1/3 of her ADHD kids in her practice were home schooled.

I'm not trying to generalize in any way, this is one psychiatrist in one area in one state of the country. But, my daughter was home schooled when she was diagnosed. Take it for what it's worth I reckon.

[rlmorel]

Every time you pick up a paper, you read about recess becoming optional or just being deleted. Or they limit what the kids can do at recess...Dodgeball is out...too dangerous...Tag is hazardous...no monkey bars, teeter totters or swings, lawsuits waiting to happen (okay, so the teeter totters really ARE dangerous...)...playing Red Rover? I don't think so.

So they completely remove any kind of spontaneous activity...which is the root of playground joy and fun. You can only play what they let you play.

And they wonder why kids are hyperactive in class.