When improperly diagnosed and applied to children who really don't have the disorder, of course. I mean, lots of kids do actually have an attention disorder, and no parenting could ';fix'; that and make it not exist. But, for parents who feed their kids junky refined, high sugar and low fat foods (yeah, low fat), and who over schedule their kids, force their kids to grow up too fast, and have ridiculously high expectations and behaviorist standards, ADHD is an excuse for parenting choices.Is ADHD an excuse for failed parenting?
wow your rude! i struggled with ADD though school and my mom tried everything she could before trying the pills. i started taking the medication and suddenly i could concentrate and i was so much more organized... i stopped and everything fell apart again. i really do hate people like you... yes some parents use it as an excuse. but why drag people down who accutally DO have it? speaking as someone who has it. when im not on meds (and im not because im pregnant) i am a scatter brain i can't concentrate. i can't remember the simplest thing. when i was a little kid i was a b student oraly (if they read the test and i explained by speaking) but its the getting it from my head to the paper that was the problem and that is a BIG problem for add adhd children.
Only somebody who has not had experience with an ADHD child would wonder that.
ADHD and ADD affect a lot more than behavior, they affect thought and in that way affect behavior. In my extended family I have known an ADHD child and know an ADD child, but I never got to know the ADHD child well. Talking with the ADD child without medication is an experience. He is very bright and was able to read well at the age of six. He is 12 now and has been on medication during the school year for two years. Without medication he has no concept of the difference between ';ask'; and ';tell'; and freely interchanges the two in his own speech - both are invitations to talk. When asked a question, even about his favorite subjects, he would produce totally non-sequitur replies that would cycle through subjects rapidly with no segues. Ritalin didn't help at all, but Straterra was like magic. He went from being a spaceman to being a normal, if slightly rambunctious, boy. His grades improved rapidly and he is on track in school. He doesn't like the side effects so he is allowed to forgo his meds (he is on something different now) during the summer.
I think many times it is. Due to the fact there really is not medical test to support the diagnosis it is often (all to often in my opinion) utilized as an excuse for many parents. It is all to easy to hop online to find the symptoms, read them off to your kids doc as though your child was really acting this way, get the script to get your unruly child so stoned they can barely wipe their own bottom let alone act up, and call it ADHD, ODD, ADD,OCD, and any other alphabet disorder you want to have your child diagnosed so you don't have to own up the fact you fudged up.
What really sucks is the fact that these disorders do exist (just not every kid on the block has them like they are being diagnosed) and for those rare few who do have them, they are paying the price the fakers pay because it is so over-diagnosed.
depends on what you mean by your question. there is both a yes and a no answer.if the parent just has the kid medicated for adhd because they can't deal with the child then yes it is failed parenting.but if this is a child that can't concentrate and is constantly fidgeting then no they have a real problem that will affect them even into adulthood that could cost them jobs education and a normal stable life
Troll much??? I'm betting you never had your parents ';take you out to the old wood shed'; and give you a beating even Mike Tyson would be like..';Damn'; Because you sound really young, but I could be wrong, maybe just no common sense....in either case, maybe you need to realize that back when I was in school, there were still kids with ADHD, they just didn't know what to call it, so they put those kids in special ed classes. But I guess you could try beating the ADHD out of your kids, if and when you have them.....then tell us how that worked out for ya.
No. It is a medical disorder. What a rude question!
ETA~ Yes, it is a medical condition that is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. It is also genetic. I am sorry but I do not beat children. Here's some articles to read up on:
http://www.aap.org/healthtopics/ADHD.cfm
I see what you are trying to say, and I agree.
You are not saying that there is no such thing as ADHD but that it is way too over misdiagnosed and more often than not parents use it as an excuse to justify why their children are monsters.
ADHD is real, although sometimes over-diagnosed.
Do some parents use it as an excuse? I would hope not. But it's possible.
Walk a day in my shoes with what our doctor described as one of the most SEVERE cases of ADHD he has seen in his practice, and then make your judgements.
Not all the time, but Honestly some BAD parents do use that disorder as an Excuse.
';the olden days when parents took out a belt and whooped the kids ***, then the kid got all A's'; - PLEASE provide some evidence to support that claim.
yeah, just like autism is a punishment from god...... get real
yep!
i think it is
im being honest
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