I was reading Top 10 Causes and Solutions for Non-Symptomatic ADHD Behavior this morning, and then something struck me: with all the things regular children have to deal with in a regular school setting, that is bad enough. Then slap on an ADHD diagnosis, and no wonder some kids feel like mental patients.
But you know, if some parents (I actually had a family in mind while reading) spent real, quality time and attention with their child, and really worked at it as a family, instead of throwing their hands in the air, saying, “She’d ADD, what can we do?” thenn maybe, just maybe things would be better.
Amen! People are too quick to subject their children to the ADHD diagnosis, and then make them ingest drugs that don’t really help. We just recently found out my husband’s son from a previous relationship has been diagnosed with ADHD and is on Ritalin. We’re seething over here, knowing that he doesn’t have anything wrong with him, but rather that he’s a typical somewhat obnoxious 11 year old boy. His mother is too lazy to spend time with him, so drugging him is the easy way out. This whole subject really makes me angry.