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"ADD = Adults Don't Discipline

Nailed it."

Unfortunately, you are incorrect but not for that reason.

ADD exists. The cause of it isn't in the youth but in the youths surroundings. It is caused by teachers. It is caused by IPoD's. It is caused by the distractions in our life that take our attention away from the task at hand.

Walk into a school. When we were kids it was just the alphabet on the walls in the class. A chalkboard up front. Go into a class today. There is so much crap on the walls that students get distracted and focus their attention elsewhere.

Today we have cell phones, blackberry's, computers. All things we didn't have twenty years ago to distract us from concentrating on one or two things. ADD is an overload of the senses. ADHD is an overload combined with all the crap we put in our bodies to wire us and tire us.

Look at our lives. We wake with product to get our day moving. We go to bed with product to slow down the effects of the product that woke us up. In between there is cookies and candies and processed garbage.

ADD and ADHD? It isn't about disciplining your kids. It is about removing the distractions that are causing children who are susceptible to losing focus from losing focus. It is about taking the crap off the walls at the school so kids look straight ahead rather then all over the place. It is about feeding our kids good food rather then processed trash. It is about sending them outside to play rather then leaving them alone in front of the gameboy.