Is attention deficit disorder just a lame excuse not to say a child is bad/spoiled?

Question

I know that some kids do have this problem, but c mon people.

When i was a kid, none of the other people my age had that problem. Why does it seem more prevalent now?

im sorry but some kids nowadays just need a good butt whuppin, or need to have things taken away from them when they act out.

Aaron

Answer 1

I couldn't agree more. There used to be spankings in school also. You rarely hear of that now. Kids didn't take guns, knives, phones, or anything related when I went to school. Why are they allowed to do so now? ADD/ADHD is a lame excuse for those that don't want to follow the rules.

Answer 2

Kids are overly distracted by more today than at any time in the past. Like, media .. peers .. the internet..
They scatter their thoughts over a million different things, instead of focusing on objectives like schoolwork or chores at home.
It is the parents and teachers that allow this behavior..
It is a general lack of discipline.
It is the adults in their life being too preoccupied with their own issues or too busy to accept and understand the reality that kids need positive attention.
It is psychiatrists and psychologists pushing pills instead of promoting family values.
It is the major drug companies with their advertising campaigns .. and their financial profit is all that really matters
It is the easy way out for everyone involved to just label a kid with an illness.
That being said.. I don't believe it is an imaginary issue. Some of these kids have a legitimate illness and need help.
But, the vast majority of them are being needlessly sucked into an overly complicated medical system that hurts more than helps. Every medical opinion will contradict the last. Every doctor will have a different idea on how best to go about solving the problem. And in the end .. none of it makes any sense. Kids will become adults running to the doctor with every emotion they have.
They will be brought up to life artifical lives based on the pills they take rather than the decisions they make.

Answer 3

While ADD and ADHD are very real (I have it) I understand what you are saying.

I personally don't take medication for it because I work WITH my ADHD and not make that an excuse. I think there are way too many people that use it as an excuse to not get things done and slack off.

I think one reason it seems so prevalent now is the drug makers are looking to make more money and are using kids and even adults to push their drug to 'help' them.

Discipline is certainly lacking in this day and age. I think paddling in school should be established as it was when I was in school and parents need to keep things in order in the home. Kids think they have more rights and privileges than they should and often scare their parents by threatening to call Child Services on them.

As an EMT I've dealt with hundreds of 'out of control' kids who are on ADHD and ADD Meds and it seems to me that ADD and ADHD is not the problem, it's the parents letting their kids get to that point. No discipline.

Answer 4

I'm not an expert in the field but as an educator with at best a rough knowledge based upon experience - my own students - I believe it is a term badly defined and misunderstood. This is a cluster of disorders that has somehow been dumped in a 'too hard' basket and called, 'attention deficit disorder'. Drug companies are reaping rewards while people, and that includes a lot of children, are being prescribed medications for an ailment that nobody can even define. We have drug education programs and at the same time we are pumping mind warping drugs into our children. What's going on here ?

Answer 5

Why dont you start a support group called Adults for Butt Whuppin?
My kids teacher asked me to come in and talk about the kids Attention Deficit Syndrome, I said to the teacher "Hey thats a shiny watch." And " I have a blue bike"
signed,
Shaun Majunder

Answer 6

Some kids do have ADD. The problem is that doctors get paid to prescribe ADD medications and schools get paid to have "special" kids. Also, some parents want the medications as a way to not have to parent. It pays of for everyone BUT the kid in the long run.

Last month, a 4 year old girl died because her mother gave her too much "happy medicine" and then it was found that everyone else had also prescribed it to her unnecessarily. There's supposed to be some group of people trying to stiffen the laws on this and I hope they're successful.

Answer 7

Didn't they? Or were they just not diagnosed? (kidding, sort-of...) Maybe ALL the negative health issues are more prevalent, because the mommies and daddies to-be took drugs so THEY could cope! What I really think is: A.D.D. is sometimes (often?) a catch-all, alright. Only, I think it's the parents/schools opting out of parenting/teaching. The little guys (gals) are zoned on Ritiilan (or whatever) and sooo much easier to control. Also, fyi to those of you out there who may not know this: There is a BIG! difference between a spanking and a beating! }:>

Answer 8

When I was in school there was no adhd or asd. There was just the "bad" kid who was always in trouble. Some children really do need some type of therapy for attention/ behavioral probs. I'd say that kids now a days are real spoiled, mine included, but they must have limitations and they most certainly have to be grounded from time to time. There has to be consequences for misbehavior amd inappropriate behaviors, period! I'm not my kids friend, I'm their parent & I will try my da-- best to raise them to be a responsible adult

Answer 9

No, it's not. When you were a kid, people DID have that problem, but nobody knew the real reason. It may have increased due to all kinds of possible reasons, or maybe it's just more recognized now. Either way, it's real.

Do you go around saying that people aren't mentally ill because when you were a kid they thought they were all possessed with evil spirits? Do you go around saying that people who are clinically depressed need to just cheer up?

ADHD is real. It's been proven by medical science. It's a neurological condition. Learn more about it please instead of just assuming.

Answer 10

There's couple of possible factors..

1.) Social upbringing, peer pressure, kids could learn from other kids' manners & attitude.

2.) Parents don't give them enough responsbilities. A parent could've had a rough poor childhood, work very hard to earn money in their adulthood, and they are spoiling their child when they don't know it. The parent could have developed a mentality of "my child shouldn't have gone through it, so I'm gonna give him/her anything she wants..."

3.) A child could act such way, maybe because of neglect. Some kids act in ways in order to cope. Coping mechanism?