There is a new, stimulant free, ADD medication for all our little sick children running around. I hope that all the good mommies run out and demand this new stuff from their doctors right away. While they're at it why not buy some prozac or zoloft. Better yet, get some of that stuff that Robin Williams suggests in his HBO comedy special (hilarious, must see) FUCKITALL. If your children are so hopped up on medication that they can't feel anything, they will complain less. That will make you a better parent right?
According to ADD.org only 4-6% percent of all americans have ADD. At a typical suburbia school at least half the kids take ritalin, aderall, or other ADD perscription drugs. Does upper-middle class suburbia cause more ADD? No, but upper-middle class parents do. Dads who don't care and moms who want their kids to be quiet (nothing wrong with that, but it is like trying to teach pigs to fly, it ain't gonna happen), decide that drugs are the easy way out. They invent sicknesses for their kids to have so they don't come off as bad parents. Instead of parenting, paying attention to the kid, without the fear of disciplining them, they hop them up on drugs. They leave parenting to aderall and reruns of Sponge Bob Squarepants.
Really... do you think that half of the small children you see have ADD, when ADD.org says that only 4-6% of people have it? Lets look at the definition of ADD (from ADD.org) distractability, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. Does that sound like any particular age group to you? I've never met a kid that didn't fit the bill. Do all kids need ADD medication? No because only 4-6% have ADD. The rest just "have it" because mommy and daddy don't want them to be so loud and ill-behaved. They're kids. Get used to it. Pay attention to them. Discipline them. Raise them right and you won't have those problems. ADD is a cop out for weak parents.
You might say; well why would doctors perscribe ADD medication if the kid doesn't need it? Simple, two reasons. The first, have you ever had to deal with a typical suburban bitchy housewife that is really pissed off and huffy? It isn't pretty. She thinks that you are endangering her baby by not doing something to help, when in fact the thing that helps the most is getting the kid the hell out of a doctor's office and back to the playground. The second, and perhaps the most relevant, is money. Doctors don't get much for a check up. If they start perscribing drugs, however, the pocketbooks open up. Both for the doctors and the pharmaceuticals. Why send the kid home without tapping him (or his parents rather) for all they are worth.
The same reasons apply to the overperscription of antibiotics and allergy medication. Every time a kid sneezes he is rushed to the doctor to get drugs. Even for the common cold (which I might inform you is incurable) parents get their kids the latest antibiotics and allergy medications. Not only are we reducing the effectiveness of our important antibiotics by overperscribing them, but we are ruining kids immune systems. The best way to build a strong immune system is to allow sicknesses to run their course. Obviously, if a kid has a 102+ fever or is throwing his guts up or has unbearable pains, maybe it is a good time to see a doctor. But use common sense, when a kid has a runny nose, large doses of medication are not needed. By not allowing his immune system to fight the sickness naturally you are robbing him of the ability to fight of sickness in the future. Your immune system will not perform if it hasn't needed to in the past. You will keep getting sick and you will keep going to the doctor. I haven't been to the doctor for an illness in over 10 years, and haven't needed to. I let my illnesses, even some of the bad ones, run their course. My immune system kicks ass because I let it.
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