Just to bring a foreign view in the debate, this ritalin
craziness is absent in France. To my knowledge about 1000 children are
under ritalin here (compared to the few millions in USA). Obviously there
are children with a behaviour some US doctors would qualify to ritalin. But
here, well, it looks like some children has always been like that, and need
more attention from parents and teachers.
[France population is about 60 millions]
* Marvin Long, Jr. [Thu, 18/01/2001 at 22:01 -0600]
>I suspect that in lots of
> cases hyperactivity is a side effect of sloth--too much time eating sweets
> in front of a TV and not enough playing and running around outside. There
> also seems to be a bizarre assumption that a six-year-old's natural state
> ought to be quiet, attentive obedience, no matter how boring or inane the
> class....
I indulge to share the same opinion.
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