Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
Originally Posted By: XS650
It is strange the way this thread has gone. The OP used a moderate amount of correction and got the desired result. If that is an indication of what it takes to get decent behavior from the child, The child is suffering from poor parenting and doesn't need drugs or beating.
Seriously. We're talking about one mild bad behavior incident from a 5 year old that possibly hasn't been disciplined enough. I don't know how that morphed into the child having ADHD and mental illness!
I helped take it down that path because I see so many children who are told they have those issues. I probably would have been diagnosed ADHD when I was a child.
Why?
Because I was bored stiff in school. Finally in 4th grade, my teacher recognized that I learned the material in about a nanosecond and she made sure I had material that CHALLENGED me and kept me interested. So I in essence finished 4th grade by winter break and went on to more advanced material.
How many ADHD kids are really bright children who are bored to distraction by the slow pace of public education?
How many need to run and play on the play ground and tackle one another and come back to the class room bruised and worn out so they don't have a bunch of energy they need to exhaust and are stuck in a class room.
I don't think we were meant to be kept inside and sitting idle for 9 hours a day when we are 5-13 or so years old.
Let the boys go outside and tackle each other until they are bloody and breathing hard, and then bring them back in for some math and some healing and rest.
I had to learn to channel my energy, to control my mind and my impulses. Drugging me wouldn't have done that. Suffering the consequences for my actions are what taught me a better way. That and the astute observations of a very old, very pentecostal teacher who would today likely be considered a child abuser.
I gave her a hug at the end of my 4th grade year. She was the first who really got me in an age where all the Dr Spock garbage was going around.
Originally Posted By: XS650
It is strange the way this thread has gone. The OP used a moderate amount of correction and got the desired result. If that is an indication of what it takes to get decent behavior from the child, The child is suffering from poor parenting and doesn't need drugs or beating.
Seriously. We're talking about one mild bad behavior incident from a 5 year old that possibly hasn't been disciplined enough. I don't know how that morphed into the child having ADHD and mental illness!
I helped take it down that path because I see so many children who are told they have those issues. I probably would have been diagnosed ADHD when I was a child.
Why?
Because I was bored stiff in school. Finally in 4th grade, my teacher recognized that I learned the material in about a nanosecond and she made sure I had material that CHALLENGED me and kept me interested. So I in essence finished 4th grade by winter break and went on to more advanced material.
How many ADHD kids are really bright children who are bored to distraction by the slow pace of public education?
How many need to run and play on the play ground and tackle one another and come back to the class room bruised and worn out so they don't have a bunch of energy they need to exhaust and are stuck in a class room.
I don't think we were meant to be kept inside and sitting idle for 9 hours a day when we are 5-13 or so years old.
Let the boys go outside and tackle each other until they are bloody and breathing hard, and then bring them back in for some math and some healing and rest.
I had to learn to channel my energy, to control my mind and my impulses. Drugging me wouldn't have done that. Suffering the consequences for my actions are what taught me a better way. That and the astute observations of a very old, very pentecostal teacher who would today likely be considered a child abuser.
I gave her a hug at the end of my 4th grade year. She was the first who really got me in an age where all the Dr Spock garbage was going around.