#11001 by DaveGTD
Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:04 pm
Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:04 pm
Irminsul, I haven't seen any evidence linking Ritalin or other pharmaceuticals to bad singing, particularly. I have read research that links it to drug abuse later in life.
Trying to exercise common sense, these drugs have the purpose of making kids act like short adults, or like girls, rather than like boys. There are some children, no doubt, who might benefit from the treatment. However, these pharms are overprescribed -- often by school nurses rather than by doctors.
I ask you: prevent a boy from experiencing young life as a boy, and what will he become? Not a macho man, unless he takes other pharms -- steroids. And early use of Ritalin will predispose them to steroid abuse. These kids are being wimpified for the convenience of adults.
The drug also messes with concentration. A kid who cannot concentrate on a task can't master it. That would include music.
Bush has touted his "No Child Left Undrugged" (my name for it) mandatory child psychiatry. This will certainly benefit the pharmaceutical companies, but I'm not so sure it will benefit the bulk of the kids.
Trying to exercise common sense, these drugs have the purpose of making kids act like short adults, or like girls, rather than like boys. There are some children, no doubt, who might benefit from the treatment. However, these pharms are overprescribed -- often by school nurses rather than by doctors.
I ask you: prevent a boy from experiencing young life as a boy, and what will he become? Not a macho man, unless he takes other pharms -- steroids. And early use of Ritalin will predispose them to steroid abuse. These kids are being wimpified for the convenience of adults.
The drug also messes with concentration. A kid who cannot concentrate on a task can't master it. That would include music.
Bush has touted his "No Child Left Undrugged" (my name for it) mandatory child psychiatry. This will certainly benefit the pharmaceutical companies, but I'm not so sure it will benefit the bulk of the kids.