Poisoning your children to make them fit

Maybe our world is the one that is sick if we have to drug our children to make them behave the way society wants them to behave? Some behavior changes associated with ADD/ADHD might be attained through dietary changes and helped with dietary supplements. Parenting education might also help if parents learn about their children's learning style and education may help parents learn to overcome their desire to force their children to be like the other children around them? I was one of those kids, when I was growing up, but I never used drugs of any kind. I didn't fit into the world of public school with neurologically normal children because school was boring to me and nothing more than a baby-sitting service... As a hyper-active child, I used my extra energy to throw three paper routes and maintain a motorcycle, take flying lessons(that I paid for) and ride my motorcycle every day. I learned to fly airplanes when I was 15 and received a license to fly solo by the time I was 16. If I was drugged into submission as a child, I am sure I might have done better in school... but I might never have become the person I am now.

I have never been happier in my life but I had to learn to cope with my poor memory and hyper activity until I finally found my way to where I belong. I went on to do well in college, 3.5 GPA, but it would have been better only: I did volunteer work 35 hours a week helping my community, doing student government, being the president of 2 or 3 clubs on campus, and many other things. I dropped out of college two three times before I finally got serious though and maybe drugs could have made me finish earlier but I wouldn't have been who I am now, so I am glad I learned life's lessons without drugs. My career is wonderful, my family is a delight and things are going great but who knows what I would be now if I had been drugged into submission?

When parents subdue their children with drugs, to keep their children in line and obedient, then they are making a decision which may have long-term physical consequences on thier children's health and those decisions may even shorten the lives of their children. Some people and schools believe it is child abuse to not drug our children to make them behave the way the other children behave. If you considered the long term affects of drugs on your child, in your efforts to change their behavior could that effort also be considered as child abuse? Doesn't that make you responsible if the drugs you give your child, to make them fit into our world, and harm comes to them? I believe we are usually just giving up and giving in to schools and doctors who want to give our children drugs. Giving drugs to our children may make our children calm enough to get along with what the world expects from us and what the world wants us to do to our children but is that expectation what is best for our children.....? It is something to think about.

Drugs may quickly subdue our children into submission but perhaps there are kinder gentler ways to help our children? We as parents of neurologically differently wired children should try to do some things that may help any child, like giving them a good diet and as much support as we possibly can to acheive their dreams, but I draw the line at drugs. Nutritional supplements and a helathy diet might not be the complete answer to making our child successful in school but they sure are less harmful than drugs and they may even do some good. Drugs may quickly subdue our children into submission but I believe there are kinder gentler ways to help our children.

Glyconutrients or other natural remedies may not make our children the zombie like children that attend the daycares we send them to for 12 years in public schools but they might help? If they don't then at least you didn't turn your round child into a drug dependent square peg to fit in a square world. If you decide to drug your children and they start to like it then maybe that is okay for your child? But there are other adults and children pushing them to use illegal drugs as well. They will arrest them but what will they do with you? I was a very happy but over active and hyper child with poor memory and poor social skills only maybe that was just what I was supposed to be? Tweet