Webloggin :: Medication as a Form of Discipline

"It’s no secret that more and more children are taking medications to control their behavior. Although I long ago stopped subscribing to Time and Newsweek, both those magazines had practically annual articles asking whether we’re medicating our children to death. In the magazines, the anti-medication consensus is always that the fault lies with lazy parents or teachers who just don’t want to deal with child energy. However, having dealt with a lot of child energy myself, I can understand that people would want a break from that. I therefore don’t think the issue is child energy. I think it’s the diminishing number of options parents feel that they have available to cope with the energy."

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