Parents used to really control the sugar intake of children. In those days sugar meant sugar, not sucrose, fructose, corn syrup, aspirtame or anything else. Read the labels if you really want to be alarmed.Right you are. I was never allowed to have sweets and gave my kids very few. When my kids were tikes, a neighbor, who ran a research lab, reported that they'd given artificial sweetners (used in diet drinks then) to lab rats and the animals developed many diseases. Not cancer, however, which meant that the study would never get reported widely.
I kept my kids off all soft drinks after that, but now my adult son consumes a six-pack of diet Pepsi every day. It's sad when your kids turn out to be jerks, believe me!
the ritalin links to the presribing data indicates it has NOT been studied for children under 6 (six) so the 1-5 year olds who are NOT in school and are not problems to teachers have not been studied.
Parents should fight ritalin tooth and nail. Being prescribed ritalin will exclude the child from military service and a host of other occupations. I don't know if being prescribed ritalin eliminates your second ammendment rights as a mental illness but I am willing to bet the leftist NEA says it does.
Have you told you son about the negatives of aspertame on the brain?