Parents who put their children on Riddelin are lazy and should be ashamed of themselves. Don't you agree?

Question

Stop making excuses for your child's misbehavior. He/she doesn't need drugs, he/she needs your love and attention! Such parents are more concerned with playing the role of good parents to their friends than they are about their children's feelings. You weren't raised on drugs and you turned out fine, why be so quick to jump the gun and take the easy route of conceding that you have no patience with your kids and pump them with drugs. Good luck living with a clean conscience, you must know you're destroying the natural growth of your childs' minds. Your kind rank amongest the most detestable Americans in our long, blessed history.

Answer 1

well i believe after all measures have been exhausted, then start to consider medications.

so to answer your question, yes the parents that "jump the gun" and go strait to the doc for a script are lazy, however you made some unfair comments in your statement about parenting - you dont know every scenario available

Answer 2

I agree. most kids do not need it. I do say MOST, I know there are sever cases where there are serious problems and the kids need help. But I would have to say at least 90% of the kids on it are not that sever and could be handled in a different way. I know when I was a kid there was no such thing as ADHD or ADD. It was called bad behavior. Your teacher would take you out of the classroom and paddle you, then call your parents. Then when you got home your dad would beat you @ss for acting up in school and getting "swats" from your teacher! AND your parents didn't ask what happened and go to the school and complain that the teacher was being unfair to their child they didn't care. If the teacher (read as: ADULT IN AUTHORITY) said you were wrong...you were wrong! This seemed to work as I don't remember too many kids acting up more than 1 or 2 times before they got the picture. LOL. Too many parents these days try to be their kids best friend. That's not thier job.
When my oldest boy was 5 I took him in for his kindergarten check up (to our family dr - an older man) and he was jumping around and talking, the guy says to me "I think your boy might have ADD I want to get him tested". I was so upset, when I told my husband he freaked! LOL! He said don't go back to that quack anymore. So I got a pediatrician and asked her if she thought he had ADD and she said "He looks like a normal active 5 yr old boy to me" But what if I had listened to that first dr. They hold alot of power and alot of ppl just take what they say for the truth...

Answer 3

Yes. Although there are a small number of children who legitametly need it, the majority are diagnosed because their parents refuse to take responsibility for their childs behavior and would prefer to have their children be diagnosed with a medical condition than to put in the time, effort and patience necessary to have their children develop well.

The fact that so many families don't have one stay at home parent doesn't help much either. The kids don't get enough attention so we drug them into placidity.

I really wonder what life will be like in 10-15 years when the Ritalin generation hits adulthood.

Answer 4

To the person ranting and raving about giving their kid Ritalin, your child isn't the only child in the world who's been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD. Both myself and my sister have both. What you DON'T understand is the effect Ritalin actually has on a growing mind. I'm painfully well-aware of it, because my sister took it, and when she was on it, it was not quite unlike her being a different person entirely. Do you even understand how the stuff works? It inhibits chemical reactions in the brain that are directly related to normal thought processes, a lot of which directly affect personality, and it's not the least bit selective or shy about it. It is, quite LITERALLY, a poison to mental development of any kind. If you think you're doing him any favors by keeping him on the stuff, you're dead wrong. ADD/ADHD can be overcome and controlled without the use of drugs, and you don't need to be a licensed therapist to do it. A very basic method is to encourage them to develop their imagination, because imagination is an excellent coping mechanism for boredom, which is a key acceleration factor in ADD/ADHD symptoms. You might find if you just paid a little more attention to him that he's not nearly as unbearable as you make him out to be.

Now that I've gotten completely off the subject, the fact is that they're not really lazy. The problem is that over the last decade or so, doctors and physicians have been none-too-hesitant to simply label every child that fidgets a little too much or that easily bores of Barney on TV to be ADD/ADHD positive. They also write off most cases with some prescriptions, saying it's the best way to do things. The number one factor in the misuse of the drug Ritalin is a lack of information. It's only natural that parents who haven't got a clue what to do about it assume that the guy they're paying a 15-20 dollar copay to in addition to the ridiculous sum of money they spend on health insurance must know what he's talking about. In this day and age, however, ignorance is no longer an excuse... The Internet, while it has a heap of unhelpful information, is a great research tool for such subjects, and kids all over America have ADD/ADHD, so you can bet there's more than one person out there who's put as much information in one place as possible to avert the use of harmful and otherwise useless treatment methods. So really, there's no straight answer to that one. Some simply aren't aware of the resources they have available to them and are being deceived by people who make money giving people drugs to solve their problems, but others, unfortunately, are indeed lazy.

As a side note, I'd like to point out that some ADD/ADHD children actually have the capacity to adapt and cope with it themselves. It's not common, but it's known to happen, and I personally was one of such children. Becoming largely a creature of habit, which negated the general memory issues most children with ADD have is one such mechanism. While this is not a perfect solution, and has some less than pleasant side effects, it's certainly better than a brain inhibiting drug. Get this: Video games. Controlling the content of what your child plays, video games can be an excellent tool for negating the typically short attention span of such children. No, you shouldn't let them babysit your kids. It obviously has to be used carefully. But it's good for developing attentiveness and reaction time. You would probably be amazed at all the things you can do for your children, or even the things they can do for themselves, to overcome the obstacles ADD/ADHD have set before them, without resorting to yet another pill that has more undesirable effects than the symptoms it allegedly "treats."

Answer 5

i'd experience like a failed figure if my baby seems that way... wow. quite in spite of the indisputable fact that distinctive mum and dad don't have any actual clue about nutrition or health. i became a fat youngster (technically nevertheless am haha) and on my 2d being pregnant and performance lost 20 lbs this time from being healthful- purely thoroughly cutting out soda did a significant # and that i have been somewhat off with my toddler considering 13 months (4 months in the past) yet we are transferring in a week and that i'm utilising it as a sparkling start up to get decrease back heading in the right direction. it isn't any longer a lengthy time period ingredient and that i plan to have her keen about some thing health appropriate-- ballet, dance, tumbling, gymnastics, tennis, and so on and so on. in spite of the indisputable fact that it's going to be her determination :) i do not pick her to bypass through what I did

Answer 6

Finally someone that agrees with me. I personally don't believe there's a such thing as ADHD. 20 years ago, the symptoms of ADD and ADHD were nothing more than kids being kids. I'm one that will NEVER put my children on drugs. I feel that if someone feels they need to resort to putting their child on drugs, they have failed as a parent. Most parents of "ADHD" kids are parents that don't know how to control their kids. Maybe if they would work on their discipline tactics, their child wouldn't be medicated.

Answer 7

Only a person that doesn't have a child with ADHD would say that. In Australia it is a vigorous system to test for ADHD and only those who truly have it are given the drugs which even the G.P cant prescribe. Is it fair to leave them off medication and suffer at school for misbehaviour and not able to learn due to the fact they can't focus, they will suffer greatly for not being on the medication than they will being on it . Giving your child the drugs is not The Easy Route. Maybe the American system should be more like the Australian one where only those who truly have it get the meds

Answer 8

I too, used to believe that drugs were not the answer. But I never, ever had to deal with an ADD child. ( I raised 6 children) And now I have a 7 year old foster son recently diagnosed with ADD. Believe me...he needs his Concerta medication!!!! Untill you actually live with an ADD child, its wrong to make a judgement of who needs medication and who doesn't

Answer 9

It always astounds me that the first thing that people think is that a child has a deficiency of a drug in their body. That's what it amounts to! But we're kind of conditioned to that way of thinking. When we were children and got a headache we were given an aspirin. Was our body deficient in aspirin? All of our illnesses can be treated with nutritional things. Herbs are chemistry too you know. You would not believe how complex biochemical nutrition is. To completely protect ourselves from all of the poisons in our air, food, and soil, would take a college degree!

Answer 10

I completely agree with you. Long term use of those drugs on children include(but are not limited to)...
smaller physical size
heart problems(irreversible)
and DEATH.... and no reason to explain it.
The school wanted me to put my daughter on it.... I seen all the people I was supposed to and was seriously considering the drug as a last ditch effort... until the doctor told me the risks. I believe people who put their children on that **** should be treated as criminals. NOONE has the right to decide for a child what damage they should suffer by taking those drugs. For me, I was able to make amazing progress with my daughter after that by using an alternative method of discipline.