On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Arun Mehta wrote:
Ritalin is a lifesaver for a small % of children who suffer from a condition ^^^^^^^ Key word here. |||||||
Ritalin... mother was furious.
Some of the kids who use foul language (a very small %) have Tourette's disease, and also need medicine (a different one)... by and large the
Bullshit. Most kids (these days) who use profanity are simply undisiplined louts. Yes, I use profanity today, at 28. However, I would NEVER have called my mother a "Fucking Asshole" under ANY circumstances, My father would have torn my head off. In fact if my father had caught me speaking like that to ANYONE at 8 years of age, I would have had trouble sitting for a couple days at least. Of course my parents made sure not to talk like that around me.
politically correct thing is sometimes to label a kid as sick rather than bad or spoiled, this is probably why drugs are over-used. But we can't throw the baby out with the bathwater!
On the other hand, if only 20% of the children that are being drugged need it, that means that we are sacrificing 80% of these children to save 20%. Drugs are supposed to be for fun, not for long term behavior modification. People need to learn to deal with life. Petro, Christopher C. petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff> snow@crash.suba.com