Ritalin

[alainbryden]

I'll make this short.
Ritalin is unfair to kids. It's definately the cure it all drug for a parent that doesn't want to bother raising their kids. It doesn't enhance anything, all it does is kill mind activity in the kid who's taking it, so that he can't think of more than one thing at once, and the mental stagnation makes him weak willed so that he will more or less mindlessly take any order given too him. It's just such a hideously wrong thing to do with a human being. I would have to say 95% of kids who take it are not in a medical condition that is in need of it.

Agree or Dissagree. This discussion can go in the direction of drugs meant to control kids as well as innapropriate child diagnoses made to excuse kids who are just acting the way they were meant to.

I remember Maddox made an article "Beat your kids", and it was a humorous exaggeration, but it does reflect how parents are giving up on the efforts of discipline when giving them a drug or slapping them with a videogame is so much easier.