RE: The general wisdom is that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
September 18, 2015 at 4:20 am
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2015 at 4:20 am by Losty.)
While it may be over diagnosed, I do believe that ADHD is a real disorder.
I wanted to address this:
"One must therefore choose between two evils, or the side effects of ADHD medications."
(Even though it was said by a spambot)
ADHD can be addressed by simply educating parents. You can complain about how many parents suck and just drown their kid in sugar and never give them any discipline. But this approach does nothing to solve the problem. Being a parent is not easy, especially if you had really shitty role models and no one around to help guide you. You're just sitting there staring at this tiny, loud, annoying, rambunctious, messy, energetic, and quite frankly not so bright (common sense wise) little human being. That you love and adore and want to make happy (and quiet), so you shove a bowl of sugar in front of it and it works...sort of...
I think we really need programs to teach new parents how to feed their children (let's face it in my country even adults do not know how to eat healthy or what even is considered healthy). How to deal with outbursts. How to provide productive ways to expend all of that energy.
We should be supporting and trying to help parents. Even if only because we are sick of putting up with their child's horrible behavior.
I wanted to address this:
"One must therefore choose between two evils, or the side effects of ADHD medications."
(Even though it was said by a spambot)
ADHD can be addressed by simply educating parents. You can complain about how many parents suck and just drown their kid in sugar and never give them any discipline. But this approach does nothing to solve the problem. Being a parent is not easy, especially if you had really shitty role models and no one around to help guide you. You're just sitting there staring at this tiny, loud, annoying, rambunctious, messy, energetic, and quite frankly not so bright (common sense wise) little human being. That you love and adore and want to make happy (and quiet), so you shove a bowl of sugar in front of it and it works...sort of...
I think we really need programs to teach new parents how to feed their children (let's face it in my country even adults do not know how to eat healthy or what even is considered healthy). How to deal with outbursts. How to provide productive ways to expend all of that energy.
We should be supporting and trying to help parents. Even if only because we are sick of putting up with their child's horrible behavior.
