Get your kids off this crap!
Be sure to get this info out far and wide!
1 posted on
11/12/2001 5:15:21 PM PST by
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2 posted on
11/12/2001 5:18:33 PM PST by
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Only science would not think that a drug that alters your brain chemistry would not have lasting effects on your brain chemistry.
3 posted on
11/12/2001 5:18:58 PM PST by
DouglasKC
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None of that sh^t will be used on any of my kids, and like Stone Cold Steve Austin says, "dat's all I gotta say 'bout that!"
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This is an important article. It could easilly get buried. I never trusted mass ritalin use by highly active kids.
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Are you kidding!! Parents love ritalin, makes it easy so they won't have to be parents. Just like TV, it's the best baby sitting tool known to man. Throw away the TV then someone might have to actually be a parent for a change.
Ritalin will always be around, it's the easy way out and convenient. Most ADHD is due to allergies, diet related, etc. Can be controlled but it takes TIME and WORK.
Try a little corporal punishment in the schools and you will see how fast their hyperactivity stops.
What happens when the child becomes an adult? Hyperactivity goes away like magic? That's because they never had it.
Ritalin = cocaine, when child becomes an adult Ritalin is stopped and cocaine addiction usually starts.
7 posted on
11/12/2001 5:38:41 PM PST by
Coleus
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ADD Attention Deficit Disorder......The attention that is in deficit is that of the parents to the child. Saw it happen several cases. End of story.
12 posted on
11/12/2001 5:42:48 PM PST by
Lower55
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Get your kids off this crap! Be sure to get this info out far and wide! And then what? Seriously? I will say Ritalin is over prescribed and ADD ADHD is Highly Misdiagnosed Not Over Diagnosed. A true ADD ADHD kid or ADHD adult will benefit from Ritalin. Many more though are not and Ritalin is of no value. There are many simuliar disorders that fit ADD ADHD behavioral patterns and in fact are not ADD ADHD.
Make the shrink the last stop. Make an Audiologist one of the first after the family GP. Sensory Processing Disorders probably account for the high percentage of ADD ADHD diagnoses increases we now see. The reason being is there are now far more triggering devices for these disorders than there was in the pre 1980's. A child or adult with medical histories of allergies or chronic ear infections are prime canidates for these type disorders. They are treatable in such that you treat the damaging cause to limit further problems.
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get your kids off of this crap
i agree. seems that the public schools are pushing this. guidance counselors and school psychologists put the bug in parents' ears. is it to help the kids? or is it to make the lives of the public school teacher easier?
16 posted on
11/12/2001 5:55:52 PM PST by
mlocher
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The United States Military will not accept anyone who has been on Ritalin once they have reached puberty. Guess they have known for a long time just how dangerous this drug is.
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My son's school said they wanted to test my son for ADHD. I told them I thought it was junk science and refused to allow him to be tested. I told them kids had been growing fine for thousands of years before Ritalin came along.
I feel very sad for any parents who allow their children to be medicated to "correct their personality."
22 posted on
11/12/2001 6:14:27 PM PST by
copycat
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Isn't Hillary Clinton a big advocate of Ritalin? Didn't the Clinton administration promote and fund its use? The Clinton legacy will outlive the Clintons.
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Excellent article t-shirt and a very important one. don't let the nattering nabobs of negativism bother you, just ignore them next time.
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FReep Halibut Award-- Dishonorable Mention
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Great thread t-shirt! Thanks for posting this! Throw out that Halibut award... We'll give you an Honorable mention any day! Thanks again!
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checkout a great new product for daydreaming kids, it is called Watchminder, check out the link
watchminder It is a great tool, it has up to 24 alarms, that can be set to go off randomly or at fixed times, it vibrates silently in the kids pocket. When it vibrates they ask themselves if they are paying attention to the teacher and doing the classwork they are supposed to be doing. It "wakes" them out of daydreams. They can self-monitor themselves, and can also set additional alarms for reminders for those who are also forgetful. I would recommend this to parents who have daydreamers or forgetful kids. Also a great tool for diabetic kids, to help remind them about blood checks/insulin times.
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73 posted on
11/13/2001 2:04:03 AM PST by
backhoe
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Thanks for posting this. Ritalin is poison to most kids! My son's school tried to force me (yes, they threatened me with a potential court order) to put him on Ritalin some years ago because he was acting out in kindergarten. He is now in high school, an A/B student in ROTC and has NO discipline problems------WITHOUT RITALIN. Ritalin is a crutch for the school system to deal with kids that pose even the smallest problem.
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Many people who push Ritalin are against spanking their kids. Um, so they would never "hit" their kid, but they would give him/her cocaine? Which one would have a more severe long term affect? We are producing a whole generation of drug addicts. I say get them off this stuff. And start spanking their behinds if they need it.
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It also changes brains over the short-term.
93 posted on
11/13/2001 6:59:44 AM PST by
pchuck
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