[Humidston]

I completely agree with you. (BTW, my son loves hot dogs and ate them often. Maybe I should have thought of that, lol!)

My daughter was very allergic to food additives as well.

But I still maintain that most excess energy can be burned off via healthy means, such as a good run or basketballs into hoops or whatever the child likes.

We have a family member whose parents claim is ADHD, "delicate and sensitive," etc. I can tell you that if we had a week or so with him alone, we'd have him straightened out PDQ. Without drugs!

Today - IMO, people look to a pill bottle to solve every problem they have.

[PeteyBoy]

I hate to start a war on this but, an awful lot of the cases that I see of kids on these medications are only on them for an SSI check. Not all of them, for sure. But, my small city is full of them. And the school system is broke because of all the special ed and aid it has to give all of these kids. I was shocked to find out how many of our "student athletes" were medicated. Maybe that's why the football team was 1-7 and the basketball team was 3-16.