My own experience concerning unnecessary drugs for children - my former, an RN, had our son diagnosed by a doctor, and he determined our son had ADHD. I knew the diet of both my children was mostly takeout - she had a top-end stove that was hardly ever used. On the first month-long visitation with me after he started on the drugs for ADHD, I asked him to give me his drugs and told both of them we would be eating 3 proper meals a day for the entire visitation. NO processed foods, NO soda, NO fast food, and definitely NO take-out. Vegetables and meats were bought from local farmers and ranchers. My daughter mentioned she noticed a difference in her brother in THREE days... by the end of the first week, he was sleeping through the night, his hands ceased shaking, he stopped biting his nails, and he stopped his consistent knee bouncing when sitting down. We went for walks once, sometimes twice, a day - even played some sports during the week. At the end of the visitation, he got his meds back, and he buried them in his luggage. After they got home, I got a phone call from my former, lambasting me for what I did and how "dangerous" it was... She was never very good at seeing what she was looking at, which scared the heck out of me as she worked in the neonatal ICU... Meanwhile, my son would take his daily dosage - and spit it into the toilet... He learned to cook and bought his own groceries (he took up a part-time job after school), a pattern that continued until his next exam, when the doctor was apparently baffled by his progress. Imagine that...
My own experience concerning unnecessary drugs for children - my former, an RN, had our son diagnosed by a doctor, and he determined our son had ADHD. I knew the diet of both my children was mostly takeout - she had a top-end stove that was hardly ever used. On the first month-long visitation with me after he started on the drugs for ADHD, I asked him to give me his drugs and told both of them we would be eating 3 proper meals a day for the entire visitation. NO processed foods, NO soda, NO fast food, and definitely NO take-out. Vegetables and meats were bought from local farmers and ranchers. My daughter mentioned she noticed a difference in her brother in THREE days... by the end of the first week, he was sleeping through the night, his hands ceased shaking, he stopped biting his nails, and he stopped his consistent knee bouncing when sitting down. We went for walks once, sometimes twice, a day - even played some sports during the week. At the end of the visitation, he got his meds back, and he buried them in his luggage. After they got home, I got a phone call from my former, lambasting me for what I did and how "dangerous" it was... She was never very good at seeing what she was looking at, which scared the heck out of me as she worked in the neonatal ICU... Meanwhile, my son would take his daily dosage - and spit it into the toilet... He learned to cook and bought his own groceries (he took up a part-time job after school), a pattern that continued until his next exam, when the doctor was apparently baffled by his progress. Imagine that...