Posted by gldngodess on August 2, 2001, at 12:15:20
In reply to Cam, parent needs good advice ..., posted by Willow on August 2, 2001, at 5:54:49
hi-My brother had a stuttering problem when he was little, 11 years old, and he went to a speech pathologist for about 4 months and was retrained to think before he spoke and concentrate without any drug intervention.
Why, do they put kids on such strong medications now a days?
I am scared if my children take some sort of test and doesn't answer the questions to the "norm of society standards", then institution of learning is going to 'label' them inept or with some social-dysfunctional disorder, prescribe that they go see a doctor to be put on meds, so that they can walk around with dry little mouths,parched lips and their jaw involuntarily jittering as if they were on "XTC" (MDMA) and walk with a zombish-gait,emotionally not giving a crap about anything, only to figure out when that"trip" they are on is going to wear-off!Screw society norms, I would rather them be as freaky as Angelina Jolie but at least be WHO they want to be and let their imagination and creativeness not be soffocated or veiled with the haze of prescribed drugs.
When I was in school, I got pimples, I was depressed, I had curly hair and I wanted it to be straight. My dad was a 'functional' alcoholic.I felt sorry for him. My mom was schizophrenic controled by haldol, but sometimes she would no take her medicine and hear voices and tell me how much she hated me and wished I was dead and how she loved my brother more,and if she knew I was a girl when she was pregnant I would have been aborted....blah ,blah, blah.
I did not have to go on medication, I suffered very very much growing up, but it made me into a stronger person today. I took it as God's way to prepare me for life, which is a peice of cake,now, compared to what I lived growing up.
I am raising my children the way I wished I was raised with lots of love...not with material things, but with hugs and kisses and love, they even sleep with me sometime.Is that so bad?
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