No Drugs

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When being a parent, you want the best for your children. You do not want to put them in harm's way. Lately, there have been a lot of parents of children with ADD/ADHD who believe that the solution for their child's behavior is giving them medication. Sometimes it is not even the medication that is necessarily needed to keep their child under control. If they knew the side effects of these stimulants, they would not be putting their child at risk of weight loss, having less appetite, or possibly brain damage. Wouldn’t you rather have your child be treated in a conservative and not aggressive way? Therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy are just some of the few therapy's that work. Even positive reinforcement, patience, and understanding are better ways of dealing with the disorder. The effects of medication are dangerous, therefore parents should consider other ways of management and therapy as way to control their child’s behavior. In this paper, I will give you some relevant arguments, and urge parents to reconsider putting their child on medication.
Long ago, in the time before Ritalin or any other medicine, how do you think parents dealt with their child that could not keep his/her hands to themselves or their

attention on one thing for a reasonable amount of time? If they did not give them drugs, what did they do? Parents had their own way of maintaining their child’s behavior. So why don’t they still do it now? Now we live in the time where medicine will either help symptoms of a disorder or cure it. Therapy, treatment of an illness or disability, is a conservative way of dealing with your child. This would be very helpful and may be useful for ADHD children who also have learning disorders. It is the parent’s responsibility to raise their child with care and discipline.
Using medication to treat their children sometimes upsets the parents. In the beginning, parents are usually hesitant to use medicat...