No, I will not drug my kid…
Our son is going to day camp this week. They’re doing all the normal things, swimming, crafts, waterguns, etc. My wife was dropping off our son this morning when she was pulled aside and asked if we’d ever had him tested for ADD. WTF? He’s a boy! You take a normal boy and drop him in an overstimulated environment like camp and he’s gonna seem wild. He might seem a bit rambunctious compared to the kids in a Ritalin induced stupor, but he is not a bad kid. I was way more, shall we say, spirited at his age than he ever is and nobody ever suggested drugging me or any of my playmates. He finds something he likes and pulling him away is a chore, like getting him to walk away from the Xbox on those rare times we let him play. If he finds something tedious and boring, he’s gonna tell you. I encourage him to speak his mind and ask why. This may not be fun when you’re trying to teach him multiplication tables but you just find a different way to teach him. Along those lines, I had him help me hang a picture a week or so ago and I turned it into a learning experience. I showed him that just to hang a picture in the right spot I needed addition, subtraction, and division. I had him do the problems for me and he got into it. Sit him down and try to drill it into him and it isn’t happening.
How did our parents and all the parents going back into eternity ever manage without drugging their kids?
: AM Radio from the album “Songs From An Amercian Movie” by Everclear