ADHD ............Or lazy teachers?

well i hear it all the time that ADD and ADHD are just being diagnosed way too much.. but i beg to differ! ADD and ADHD are passed down geneticly.. so if only one of the parents has it so does the child! my next gripe with this all is how everyone wants to just slap the kids on meds! this is NOT the way to go about it! simple diet changes work wonders with ADD and ADHD! i have ADD myself and sure its hard to focus ect, but if i stick with the proper diet i do very well! i also have my son on the diet and he does great with it as well!

This is a really emotion charged issue. I think there is a lot of factors in it, poor/or little parental teaching,schools that are over-croweded, the 'popularity' of using labels for everything. I think those kinds of labels end up hurting the child, they are too often used as excuses for a child not behaving. I know there are parents and teachers [and doctors] who are truely concerned about these kids, who spend a lot of time and effort with them. But there are those others too, the ones who glare at you when their child has just banged into your walker,causing you to stumble and {luckily} grab a shelf to keep from falling, ---- those who then bark at you 'the kid can't help it, he's -----{fill in the blank}. I soooooooooo often want to tell the parents the kids can't help it mostly because YOU haven't taught him.

In some cases, ADHD and its diagnosis is the responsibility of parents and is aresult of their laziness, mainly because the parents didn't instill discipline in the child before he or she started school. Many times people think frenetic activity that is seen in boys is normal, when actually they are using the hcild's gender as an excuse to not instil the same discipline as they would a daughter. A diagnosis of ADHD is not made lightly. There are many documentation requirements and these kids behave much differently than the others in their same age group and gender group. Wwhen the child isn't in a setting with their peers, their hyperactivity isn't compared to others so many people just accept the child as being really active. The difference show p when they are with others in the classroom setting. Often the teacher cannot successfully discipline the student as she can the others in the classroom. There is no reason a teacher should be seen as lazy in this instance. She simply cannot devote the sort of time needed to guide a student with ADHD and maintain an orderly classsroom for the other students. I think medications are a blessing in these circumstances.

From what I understand, they do not just give out this medication just b/c a parent asks for it. My neice had to go through testing, she even went to a summer school for adhd children so she could be monitored, before they gave her any medication. I personally do not think teachers should be called lazy, it is not up to them to raise our children. They are there to teach them, and I know it is very hard for a teacher to do her/his job if there is even one child in the classroom that has add or adhd and it is not under control. One child can disrupt an entire classroom. It is not something the child can help either, I am all for medication if it works and is well monitored under a drs. supervision. My neice has to see her doctor every 30 days to get her meds. Life is not only more pleasant for those around her, it is better for her too. She is a precious, beautiful, loving child, but she can't be that way without the medication, for now. She is very smart too, when on her meds she makes straight A's and doesn't disrupt the classroom either. Hope this helps.

I agree with you that people seem to be blaming ADHD for bad behaviour instead of blaming the parents for not teaching the kids how to behave properly. I think it is true that if you expect good behaviour then the child is more likely to behave well.

I dunno. SOme kids are pretty crazy these days. I wouldn't blamne the teacher for it

i personally don't think people should be that quickly to medicate adhd children, they can work past it if it really is diognosed. remember you can't tell if a child is really adhd unless to have proper testing. hopfully this child has been properly testing before being told he had ahhd. also, some medications also have a side effect on children as well. different approaches and teaching skills. see even you sister proved they don't need medication. your mind is more powerful then you think and we have to teach our children that.

The Teachers shouldn't and can't diagnose AHDH. They can certainly suggest a possible condition, and recommend a medical appointment. I would lay the blame completely on the Doctor, if an incorrect diagnosis has been made. Then again, here at least, Doctors rely on teachers filling in a questionaire about a child, and being totally honest. Maybe yoyur friend should get a second opinion.

A friend of mine has ADHD, and he is 21 now. He didn't took any pills of short, but he just went through life like that. I would say it is Lazy parents and lazy teachers. These are all psychological. If we treat them with enough attention, they would surely try to give back attention. But then who wants to waste extra effort for troublesome children. But if we really do care about our children and students, then we should devise certain ways through which we can catch his attention. Throw away the monotony and surprise his senses and calm him down. It is rare that we have such understanding teachers or parents. They only identity the problem but never go for a solution but blames the child and resorts to the quickest way to remove the problem ( with much more harmful effect ) rather than solve the problem.

thats good the kid got one to sugar pills. in my school i know several guys who take ADHD medication. and they are still a little hyper anyways, but if they accidently forgot to take it, OMG they are bouncing off the walls!!! does that mean the pills dont have a real strong affect on them? do the guys act more hyper because they know they didnt take the pills, or is it because they didnt take it and it really isnt working?

Sorry this is happening. I wish sometimes I could take pills for having adult A.D.D. I have always had it since I was young but never thought I had it. You see I was a quiet kid so I have the shy version not the big messy one you are talking about. My sister says pills are great. But I would love something to focus with. Its horrible being this way! Hope they figure stuff out. But sometimes hyper kids do need something to be less hyper. I'd just make sure they are tested before saying they have ADHD!

GRRRRRRRR. My daughter had a teacher in grade 2 that was the same way. She was a very busy little girl and since she didn't fit the mold of quiet and sweet little girls, the teacher wanted to smack the label of ADHD on her. Hubby and I said no way, the teacher moved to another school, we waited out the year and 6 years later, she is a fine young lady. Some teachers are just lazy or can't deal with certain kids, so this is their answer. Get a second opinion and even a third if you have to!

I think so. I have a couple of friends who have had parents and/or teachers basically force their kids on ridolin or aterol or whatever it is. Often times, curbing their hunger and stunning their growth. For example, my friend Jeremy used to take ridolin when he was younger. He was always the small and skinny kid. Finally in high school I was able to talk some sense into him and help him realize he didnt need it. He stopped taking it and grew several inches and actually got some muscles and meat on his bones. I want to stress that I dont think it is right and it is only setting the kids up to have a bigger problem in the future.

I have ADD so I know it is somthing that sometimes needs to be medicated. However, we also have friends that their child has been put on meds and he is still having problems and is so mean. He just needs discipline. I do agree that ADHD has become something that it seems as if every child "seems" to have. I do think that teachers and some parents are just getting lazy and wants a calm child. All children are not calm and all children do not have ADHD. As for how to tell the difference, I do not know. I have to take meds and I am an adult. I don't have the hyperactivity part (sometimes wish I did) but I can not concentrate on anything. I was not on meds when I was younger b/c my brother had been for a few months and it made him soooo depressed that she took him off of it and wouldn't put me on it either. The teachers complained but my mother told them to deal with it. Even though he wasn't looking at them and playing with other things, when they came back to him he could always tell them exactly what they had said. He was so smart but just couldn't pay attention. I am the opposite, I can't tell you what you said b/c when you are talking, my mind is going 900 miles a minute. Never thought about taking sugar pills. Of course I couldn't do it to myself b/c I would know they were sugar pills.

I've thought putting kids on pills was a bad idea. There are some that really do need them though. Most of the time I bet it's just like you said about the sugar pills. Either that or the kid just needs some extra help or attention, not pills. Everyone today is just looking for the quick fix and pills are just that.

Parents have different ways of approaching different problems. my son has ADHD but i've never put him in meds. His previous teachers have labeled him "lazy" and "stupid" so i took him to a school that has a special program for children with ADHD. he's doing pretty well right now and i make it a point to show him how much i appreciate his efforts.

o i so agree with you i have a 6 yr old boy that can be hyper but also very lazy and when he was 5 they wanted to put him on meds i said no way! you send me to some one that can help me with different ways of dealing with it other then meds so they did but come to find out she was a doc for kids with add/adhd and all she did was try to talk us in to the meds so needless to say we stopped going there and i have been dealing on my own. i am sorry but that med can not be good for these kids to take all the time. he does act different then the other kids with getting hyper but you have to sit him down for a minute make him calm down but yeah i guess for some the meds are easier.

I hate the way this country is going, having a pill to solve every little problem. I don't see them as solutions at all. A kid that misbehaves just needs some good parenting and structure. How about them nanny shows where the kids are completely out of control, a lady comes in for 3 days and fixes everything with some good rules? That's a lot more effective than any pill. Whether it be laziness on the parents/teachers part, I dunno. Could be. But who wouldn't try a pill that promises a quick solution rather than putting in the effort yourself?