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All children are home-schooled from the beginning. When a parent brings a 2, 3, or 4 year old to the doctor with attentional concerns, the parent is the concerned 'teacher' not the public schools. ( Softballmom)

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Are these kids in daycare and pre-schools? Are there moms working outside the home from early ages?

The NEA is pushing for universal pre-K and full-day kindergarten. I predict an explosion of ADD and ADHD.

Let's look at how children are raised by the members of our church.

1) A mother in my congregation taught me how to get my newborns to sleep through the night. She told me that I should not talk or play with the baby when he woke up during the night, and to use only the smallest light needed to change his diaper and feed him. She said that in this way the baby learns that it is boring a night and more worthwhile to sleep.

2) When infants cry in church, the moms leave and take them to a quiet and boring area of the church ( such as facing the wall). The moms do **not** entertain the child by talking and playing, but change diapers and feed the child in silence. In this way the infant soon learns that being quiet in the congregation is more interesting than being noisy facing a wall.

2a) As the children get older ( in my children about 2 1/2) if the child misbehaves during the service, another member ( NOT the mom or dad) will take the child out of the service. The mother and father then retrieves the child after 2 to 5 minutes. The child is told, "Quiet children can stay in the service with their family."

3) The mothers being teaching their children in infancy how to be quiet. Every day they line their children up on the sofa. They teach their children how to fold their arms or hands, and encourage them ( sometimes with small rewards) how to sit still and be quiet. They do this for about 5 minutes every day and explain the behavior needed during church.

4) They establish a routine of morning, evening, and mealtime prayer and daily scripture reading. ( During these times the children are expected and encouraged to be quiet and non-disruptive.)

4a)They have set meal times and no snacking between meals.

5) These children have regular nap times.

6) Unless the family is desperate, the mothers do **not** work.

7) The mothers and fathers are continually sharing gentle but effecting disciplining techniques.

Isn't it amazing? These children can sit quietly in a physician or dentist's office! They can stand in line at the bank. They don't go "nutz" in the supermarket. And,,,,there teachers LOVE these kids in school!

The children of our members are in gifted and talented programs far more often that statistics would dictate.

Do we have ADHA in our congregation. Yes! It is **only** with older children who have parents who have converted to the religion. It is amazing, but the behavior ( and school work) of these children improves the longer they are active in the church.

Ok,,,I am waiting for an ADHA/ADD defender to call me abusive!