Sometimes its the parents that need to be spanked. I think it is important to not just examine the child, but the totality of the daily environment. Drugs should be the last resort, not a quick fix.
In the US, even college students are taking unprescribed drugs to increase concentration. Then the ones who don't take the drugs feel they are disadvantaged and "have" to take them too.
There are parents who don't believe in spanking at all, which result in naughty children. Of course we do not go to the extreme of child abuse, and neither extremes are good anyway. Spare the rod and spoil the kid. A little bit of caning once in a while when the child gets naughty will help to put him in the right path again.
Smacking a child who has misbehaved may work for typical children, but it will aggravate the child who has ADHD, causing him or her to behave even more aggressively.
If the child consistently shows outrageously hyperactive behaviour, e.g. is unable to sit still for a few minutes before running off, behaves in an anti-social manner often, such as hitting out at his or her friends, is unable to follow any of the parent's instructions, then it's time to take a trip down to the doctor's for an examination.
I once overheard a grandma trying to explain why his grandson was running up and down like a monkey and distrupting the class ".... oh he had too much sugar for breakfast this morning".
My ex-colleague always used the excuse "boys are boys" whenever her son misbehaved even to the point when he played traunt. Today, he's a young man in his mid twenties who's never even finished his secondary education.
Spare the rod and spoil the kid is only half truth. I think a parent in denial is the first step to ruining his own child's life. And they both pay for it and have to live with it for the rest of their lives.
I have a relative who hits his mom and wife when there's disagreement. Nobody says anything cos he's the first born!!
This thing about kids being sensitive to sugar is very real. I see that in my own daughter who is ADD and
dyslexic.
If she takes anything with more than a spoonful of sugar, she will be jumping around, giggling and generally very disruptive for the next 2 hours. It would be impossible to get her to sit down to study until all that sugar has been burned up.
In cases of kids like them, it is crucial to restrict their sugar intake. What makes it worse is that they tend to have a craving for sugar.
November 01, 2009 Sunday, 04:21 AM
