When children are diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, stimulant medications like Ritalin or Adderall are usually the first line of treatment.
“You hear of losing your child’s personality, and they become a shell of themselves, and they’re not that sparking little kid that you love,” Brett Knapp said. “I didn’t want to lose that with Brody, ’cause he’s an amazing kid.”“I was all for stimulants at the very, very beginning just because I know what they can do to help a neurological issue such as ADHD,” Ashley Knapp said.
A behavioral intervention can range from cognitive therapy to school support. It can be as simple as parents setting up a system of expectations reinforced by rewards or punishments. But the techniques — things like counting to keep him on the task of putting away his toys, and rewards like time playing legos after he finishes a chore — are helping him, she admitted.
A new study co-authored by Coles took it further. It found that children ages 5-13 with ADHD who received therapy first often needed less medication. And 37% of the children who got therapy first didn’t end up needing to take pills at all.
Has anyone considered the 'after effects' of these meds? Could it possibly be a precursor to the 'drug epidemic' today.I have heard of many parents who wouldn't give their children these drugs who went through the normal 'behavior stage' for kids & are now normal adults.
An ass whopping is better than meds depending on the situation.
Beat it into them, make them suppress the anger and frustration?
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Maybe because ADHD isn't a behavioral problem! It's a medical one! That often requires medication!!
Behavioral treatments before medicine. Teaching kids to be ine dependent on medications
Lazy parents.
This couldn't BE MORE OBVIOUS! It's such an awful money making sham the way they foist these meds on kids, often by getting doctors to hit parents with guilt, 'don't you want your child to feel good?'
'...I'd tranquilize the rest with pills.'
drug them into submission rather than teach them to cope, it's a dangerous life precedent we are giving.
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