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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX
when I was growing up it was okay to be hyperactive, my mom would let me go outside and run around in the yard and be a kid.
today, "oh my little angel has ADD" lets lock him in his room, give him Adderall and television, and you wonder why he shoots a school full of kids aon Prom Night?
LOL
let kids be kids instead of drugging them up, but hey, the same parents who drug up their teens were giving their kids Benadryl as infants to keep them quiet at night.
reap what you sow.
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Fletch, I pretty much like you okay, and this is admittedly a topic that I feel strongly about...
but I wonder if your thoughts would be the same if a few years down the road your new child ends up with ADD/ADHD?
I wonder if you'd let her fail in school, knowing full well that she was smart, and that she was actually trying her very best. Would you consider all available options to help her, or would you just let her fail, marking it down to "letting kids be kids"?
I'd say it is one of those instances where it's easy to have an opinion and downgrade other parents when you've not been faced with their circumstances.
Oh, and btw...when children experience success as students, make friends, and have the mental security of knowing that their parents are on their side, that their teachers are on their side, they generally grow up to be confident, capable beings not the type that shoot up the prom.
