[PoisedWoman]

He cited cases where parents reported that their ADHD-diagnosed children could not pay attention - but then those same children could play video games for hours without being distracted.

When I was editorial director for publishing company that did health-realted books, I turned down a couple of manuscripts on ADHA because I was not convinced that it was a real disorder. The co-owner of our company, a millionaire, wanted to put out the books because his two spoiled brat kids had zero attention span. I asked him whether he bought the boys every computer game that came on the market. He had to admit that he did, and that they paid attentionto the games.

The point is, even wealthy kids suffer from parents who believe that throwing another toy at their kids is "parenting."

[longtermmemmory]

How about we come up with a new disorder called "BSAD" Boring School Attention Disorder. It comes from intelligent young children who are abused by the mind numbingly boring teachers. Please, there may be legitimate problems but being able to CONCENTRATE is now called a problem! Learning how to diferentiate is called GROWING UP! Just because you give a CHILD a NARCOTIC does not mean they are better it just means you have subsumed their will to be imfluence by outside sources.

There was a thread here on this same topic which stated that when FATHERS showed up to these "smiley face put you child on ritalin (NARCOTICS) meetings", they were dramatically NOT put on the drug. Please these are members of the NEA, do you really expect these to be good professionals as a rule rather than as an exception.

Plus notice we are only talking about young boys...