Posted on 03/23/2007 2:53:55 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
I'll second your diagnosis.
The government schools are no help either. Disruptive child? Load him up with Ritalin.
Later that night, McGonnell told police, he heard someone struggling to breathe and found Rebecca gurgling as if something was stuck in her throat. McGonnell told police he wiped vomit from his niece's face, then kicked in the door to her parents' room and yelled at the Rileys to take Rebecca to the emergency room.
Instead, Carolyn Riley said, she gave her daughter a half-tablet of Clonidine.
This story is unbearable to read. I couldn't finish it I was so torn up and thinking of my own 4 yr old daughter upstairs asleep. All I can do is offer my sincere urgent (desperate) prayers for Rebecca's siblings and their safety.
Wow, you're in Mexico!
I'll read this tomorrow and ping it out. I just read the first couple of sentences. Freaking heartbreaking.
Just how did the human race survive without medicating kids into unquestioning submission? I know lots of people who would have been willing to give that girl a home if her parents didn't want her. I have no idea why some people even have kids in the first place.
if they looked listless and "not right" why wouldn't this neighbor do some checking on her own....she could have called the fire dept to report a possible carbon dioxide leak...
I'd bet because it's nice to have them around when it is CONVENIENT for them but most of the time, these kids are in the way and interfere with their "ME time".
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How did you handle the situation? How is he doing now?
A report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2002 estimated that about 7 percent of elementary school-age children _ or approximately 1.6 million youngsters ages 6 to 11 _ have been diagnosed with ADHD.
The annual number of U.S. children prescribed anti-psychotic drugs jumped fivefold between 1995 and 2002, to an estimated 2.5 million, according to a study published last year by researchers at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital in Nashville, Tenn.Warning flags anyone?
This issue goes a whole lot deeper than this particular instance. The difference between these people and a million other parents is a matter of degree only. Middle & upper class parents that indicriminately drug their children are harming those children no less just because they aren't drug addicts themselves.
It was really rough for many years. The only person who believed me that something was very wrong was my husband. I got the "You just don't spank him enough." thing constantly.
Spanking did NOTHING but make our relations ship work.
Kindergarten was a nightmare, with me having to drag him out from under the bed to go to school more often than not. If I hadn't had my second child immediately, he might have been an only child.
I finally took him to a psychiatrist after I attended his kindergarten circus, and he was the only child who was angry and sad. I cried all the way home, and made an appointment.
We went through a diagnosis of Sensory Integration Dysfunction, then ADD(which he seems to have on top of the bi-polar) and finally just in the last couple years, we got to bi-polar(He is 13, in 7th grade now). We resisted medication until the end of third grade, when we put him on Straterra.
That was a great decision. He went from having to be forced to read to being the top reader in the school in fourth grade. He tests on a genius level, but seems to have some learning disablity in the writing area, as well as dysgraphia, but he brought his writing up two grades that year until he was on grade level.
He is now on bi-polar meds, and only takes his ADD meds when he decides to. In the last few months, I can FINALLY enjoy being with my son, and we are having great fun watching all my favorite old sci-fi shows.
I don't care what people say about lazy parents and no Dad,(My husband is in the home.) medicine saved us.
I was terrified we wouldn't get him straightened out before puberty. Sorry for the length, but this site is full of ignorant, judgemental people, who have NO idea what it is like to live with a child who is nearly impossible to discipline.
That should be "relationship worse."
I don't know why the formatting is wonky.....
Thank you for sharing your experience. I can't imagine the heartache involved but I'm glad to hear that things are goin well for you now.
What a tragedy about this little 4-year old girl.
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