How to deal with"ADD" kids

[Cobrabill]

http://www.funny-video-stuff.com/viewmovie.php?id=632

[imagine2frolic]

That treatment always got my attention!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Wayne Maybury]

Hey Bill, how do you think this will be received by the PC crowd?

Wayne

[Scott S]

The same approach works for lead paint in homes, my wifes cousin asked what we were doing to protect our children from the hazards of lead paint.

I told her I slap them every time they chew on the woodwork.

Scott S

[DAVID GAGNARD]

That's pretty much the way my folks raised their 5 kids when we mis-behaved, good thing I was a quick learner, didn't have to slap me too many times before I figured it out!!!!!!!!!

I'm sure our house had lead-base paint (built around 1950), but, I don't remember any of us kids chewing on the wood work, I guess my folks kept us well fed, so we wouldn't eat the house...

But they did use the roach poison that the exterminator would put in bottle caps and put around the house....I'm told it looked just like peanut butter and tasted close to it, I don't remember,I was only 2 years old when mom found me in the closet eating it, brought me to the hospital and as a precaution the doc went ahead and pumped my stomach, but said it probably wouldn't have done me any harm.......

I still use that episode as an excuse for the way I am today, getting good mileage out of that one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

David

[imagine2frolic]

That probably was peanut butter. We sometimes have to dock in undesirable places where roaches roam the docks. We use boric acid, and a peanut butter mix in ziplocks. In a couple of days time you see them upside down.

[Cobrabill]

The house i grew up in was built in the late 1890s-early 1900s.You can imagine what was(is) in that house.But i survived quite well-thank-you.The house was also full of loaded guns 24/7.Todays experts say that scenario is un-survivable.

My ritalin came in a container shaped like a 4'11" catholic nun with a 1/2 inch thick yard stick.

Wayne-does my concern show?

[blykins]

That's exactly how kids need to be handled now. Good friends of mine are experiencing a lot of problems with their own kids being scared at school because of kids who are just unruly and belligerent. It's a shame that some parents have to suffer because of other parents' bad skills.

The Bible says that if you spare the rod, you spoil the child....

When I was a kid, you didn't see this kind of crap in school....but when I was a kid, little brats got their hindends blistered too.

[Scott S]

Originally Posted by blykins

That's exactly how kids need to be handled now. Good friends of mine are experiencing a lot of problems with their own kids being scared at school because of kids who are just unruly and belligerent.

Our kids are out of school now but at one time I considered filling a suit against the school for not providing a satisfactory learning environment.

The unruly kids disrupted class so much my kids were not able to get the classroom experience state law demands.

Scott S

[WildBill3]

Im with Blykin's on this one thats the way we got it to,I have two sisters that are school teachers they just said its out of ther hands because of all the legal papers that have been filed over the years,people trying to get rich cause little johny his ass paddled because his was being a little #$%# in class.




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[HI Cobra]

I'm with blykins on the "spare the rod" bit. Used to be in school if one was
disrupting the class he got sent to the P.E. instructor who got out his 2' long
wood paddle with holes drilled in it - you bent over and grabbed your
ankles and got whacked. Very few went back for a second dose.
Guys would come back with tears in their eyes and were very quiet.
I can just imagine what would happen now if that were tried.

[Scott S]

Originally Posted by HI Cobra

you bent over and grabbed your
ankles and got whacked.

You must not have gone to a parochial school...

With all the stories about teachers lately would you bend over for them?


Scott S

ps. I never whacked my kids to punish them...

I whacked em to get their attention, then I punished them.

[HI Cobra]

Scott,

LOL - no, it wasn't a parochial school. This was in Montgomery, Alabama
at a junior high school in the late 50's. I managed to avoid getting
smacked but those that did would nearly get lifted off the floor, like I
said earlier, it made a believer out of most.

[blykins]

Do you guys remembering seeing ADD kids when you were in school? I had no clue what this was until probably 10 years ago. I don't remember anyone sitting in their seats fidgeting and not being able to concentrate.

[imagine2frolic]

Not only would the gym teacher give you a whack, but when you got home it would be worse.

Kids don't get outside, and play like we did. We use to ride our bikes all day hooking up with friends to play ball, or just discover what was in the open fields around our homes. Now days kids play video, watch tv, and eat tons of sugar. Hell I would be jumpy too if I lived my life like that!

[392cobra]

Originally Posted by imagine2frolic

Not only would the gym teacher give you a whack, but when you got home it would be worse.

Kids don't get outside, and play like we did. We use to ride our bikes all day hooking up with friends to play ball, or just discover what was in the open fields around our homes. Now days kids play video, watch tv, and eat tons of sugar. Hell I would be jumpy too if I lived my life like that!

AND 99% of their parents are over indulgent,self centered WUSSIES !

[imagine2frolic]

392,
Yep that is where the problem starts. Monkey see monkey do. The partent is an idiot, and the kid will be too!

[Scott S]

Originally Posted by blykins

Do you guys remembering seeing ADD kids when you were in school? I had no clue what this was until probably 10 years ago. I don't remember anyone sitting in their seats fidgeting and not being able to concentrate.

Maybe it is the lack of lead paint, asbestos, whole milk, playing tag, and Christmas songs.

We have taken all of those away and more and the problems keep getting worse.



Scott S

[lust4fia]

Here is another perspective. I would guess that a lot of cobra owners are AD/HD. One of the traits is thrill seeking to get the stimulation that ADDers so desire.

Some of histories greatest contributers were thought Have ADD. Edison, Henry Ford, Einstein, Da Vinci and on and on. They are people that go nuts when confined to rigid structure and forced to conform to arbitrary rules. They are often great at entreprenurial business, creative etc. Sounds like a lot of people here.

Google ADD or check out a good book or two to learn a little more about it. I don't think beating the sh!t out of them is a viable solution. Here is an interesting site http:/www.borntoexplore.org/

[Cobrabill]

Beating the crap out of "them" worked untill the liberal doctors & drug companies got involved.

Like someone else said:ADD didn't exist in the 50s,60s,& 70s.

Here's another thing to "Google":how many companies/agencies(FBI being one) that won't hire someone who has been on ritalin.