To: Amy J who wrote (280952 ) 3/21/2006 4:07:38 PM From: tejek Read Replies (2) | Respond to That's not good. There are some teachers that are seeking an easy way out (not the good ones, of course), so they put pressure on the parents to put their kids onto something (did you read about the case in NYC, where the court forced the parents to give their kids these types of drugs?) I would guess it's the talented kids that are put on that stuff because they simply have more energy and more intelligence than the average so a teacher/parent may think there's something wrong, when in fact they're simply not used to a smart, active child. I wonder if anyone has yet made the common sense observation that the increase in drugs for kids exactly coincides with kids becoming less active outdoors. Again, I think the problem is today's lifestyle, not the kids. Get the kids outside to play with active exercise, and you would probably see the drug use decline. In Silicon Valley, you see zero children playing outside. They are all inside playing video games. I have never seen children as inactive as this. It's very, very unhealthy. When I was little, we would play outside all the time and run, run, run. No child was ever diagnosed with what the article describes because children not only played outside, but the system never imposed drugs onto children as a solution.
