TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2011
This video needs to be seen. It needs to be heard. The religion behind it, is seriously crazy, but the message is very true.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv49RFo1ckQ
And you need to have an open mind about it, obviously. And I'm bringing drugs into it, because with labels on kids, drugs usually follow. There are people who do need medication, if proper diet and other things do not help. Or if there is an injury, damaging the brain and they have no choice.
But too many parents turn to drugs for their child who just can't sit still in class. Who just can't focus, or the work is too hard. I know parents of teens where one set turns to drugs, and the other take a different approach. They cut out the extra curricular fun stuff. They change the diet. They crack down and become stricter with the teens. Sure, both may work, but at what cost does the drug taking child suffer? If they've already been taking drugs since childhood, whenever a problem arises, as an adult, they'll most likely chose drugs to help when they can't deal. When work is too hard or too stressful. And then, when they have kids, the cycle repeats. The child not taking drugs-learns to deal with life and live healthy. They're not going to turn to drugs at the first sign of a problem in their child. Are they?
I'm curious the studies done of these kids. Long term effects of psychiatric drugs anyone? Other than them becoming prescription using adults. I'll not apologize for the sarcasm. I said that some people actually do need help. I bet some of us can think back to our childhood and realize all these labels just didn't exist. Parents were more involved and strict. Children had respect for elders and each other. Food, might have been a better quality-you know, our food wasn't drenched in food coloring, bad oils and sugar, the way it is today. Kids weren't running around on Ritalin or some other sit still drug. When did the numbers start to rise and we start to fail our children? Another thing to think about-long term safety studies of these drugs? Short term safety studies? Neurological effects of these drugs? Yet people will give them to their kids, instead of looking at another way.
As an adult, I suppose I have a label. It's many things, and I'm sure I would have been called a witch and persecuted in Salem. Many, many great thinkers and scientists would have been labelled, and actually, though dead, are being labelled now, as a reason why they thought a certain way. I do have a lot more to say on this subject, but right now it's about recognizing that too many kids are labelled and tossed drugs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv49RFo1ckQ
And you need to have an open mind about it, obviously. And I'm bringing drugs into it, because with labels on kids, drugs usually follow. There are people who do need medication, if proper diet and other things do not help. Or if there is an injury, damaging the brain and they have no choice.
But too many parents turn to drugs for their child who just can't sit still in class. Who just can't focus, or the work is too hard. I know parents of teens where one set turns to drugs, and the other take a different approach. They cut out the extra curricular fun stuff. They change the diet. They crack down and become stricter with the teens. Sure, both may work, but at what cost does the drug taking child suffer? If they've already been taking drugs since childhood, whenever a problem arises, as an adult, they'll most likely chose drugs to help when they can't deal. When work is too hard or too stressful. And then, when they have kids, the cycle repeats. The child not taking drugs-learns to deal with life and live healthy. They're not going to turn to drugs at the first sign of a problem in their child. Are they?
I'm curious the studies done of these kids. Long term effects of psychiatric drugs anyone? Other than them becoming prescription using adults. I'll not apologize for the sarcasm. I said that some people actually do need help. I bet some of us can think back to our childhood and realize all these labels just didn't exist. Parents were more involved and strict. Children had respect for elders and each other. Food, might have been a better quality-you know, our food wasn't drenched in food coloring, bad oils and sugar, the way it is today. Kids weren't running around on Ritalin or some other sit still drug. When did the numbers start to rise and we start to fail our children? Another thing to think about-long term safety studies of these drugs? Short term safety studies? Neurological effects of these drugs? Yet people will give them to their kids, instead of looking at another way.
As an adult, I suppose I have a label. It's many things, and I'm sure I would have been called a witch and persecuted in Salem. Many, many great thinkers and scientists would have been labelled, and actually, though dead, are being labelled now, as a reason why they thought a certain way. I do have a lot more to say on this subject, but right now it's about recognizing that too many kids are labelled and tossed drugs.
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