Imagine not having control of your body, whether it is something small like being hyperactivity a little bit, or completely losing act of your mind. Your mind has a switch that you can’t turn off. And if you can turn it off, it can turn back on at any minute. Imagine that you have been crawling on your knees your whole life, but everybody else has two legs to walk on. You understand that you are different, and you know you should be walking like everyone else, but you cant seem to get up on your own two feet and balance on them. It can be an awful thing to live with if you do not know how to control it, or have someone around to help you. This mindset that I am talking about is known as ADHD (Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder).
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I believe that children are being over prescribed for ADHD medication. Doctors these days count a kid that has so much energy with ADHD, without properly figuring out what is wrong with them. They think pills can fix everything. “The problem: Children are constantly in an upright position these days.” (B4) “Lets face it: Children are not nearly moving enough, and it is really starting to become a problem.” (B5) Children these days are stuck in classrooms and they do not have enough time to play outside. Also even if the day was nice outside, kids would rather be playing on electronics instead of going outside to play. “We quickly learned after further testing, that most of the children in the classroom had poor core strength and balance. In fact, we tested a few other classrooms and found that when compared with children from the early 1980’s, only one out of 12 children had normal strength and balance.” (B6) Comparing those 2 years to each other, and see that big of a difference is something that needs to be helped. If the number of kids with ADHD could decrease, even a little, it would be a great thing. In article B8, it starts to tell the amount of exercise that children need to start doing more. “Therefore, having soccer practice once or twice a week is likely not enough movement for the child to develop a strong sensory system.” (B8) A sport 2-3 times a week is not enough for young children. They have so much energy in their body, that they need to get it all out. “We are turning childhood into a disease.” (C4) said (Name of author) Children need to be more active in their lifestyle, and once they start to eat right and exercise more, if they are still having trouble, then go see if medication is needed. Medication is not a dreadful thing, it is just being overused. As you look further into the situation, you can see that medication is being abused. “And as if this were not bad enough, 30%
I believe that children are being over prescribed for ADHD medication. Doctors these days count a kid that has so much energy with ADHD, without properly figuring out what is wrong with them. They think pills can fix everything. “The problem: Children are constantly in an upright position these days.” (B4) “Lets face it: Children are not nearly moving enough, and it is really starting to become a problem.” (B5) Children these days are stuck in classrooms and they do not have enough time to play outside. Also even if the day was nice outside, kids would rather be playing on electronics instead of going outside to play. “We quickly learned after further testing, that most of the children in the classroom had poor core strength and balance. In fact, we tested a few other classrooms and found that when compared with children from the early 1980’s, only one out of 12 children had normal strength and balance.” (B6) Comparing those 2 years to each other, and see that big of a difference is something that needs to be helped. If the number of kids with ADHD could decrease, even a little, it would be a great thing. In article B8, it starts to tell the amount of exercise that children need to start doing more. “Therefore, having soccer practice once or twice a week is likely not enough movement for the child to develop a strong sensory system.” (B8) A sport 2-3 times a week is not enough for young children. They have so much energy in their body, that they need to get it all out. “We are turning childhood into a disease.” (C4) said (Name of author) Children need to be more active in their lifestyle, and once they start to eat right and exercise more, if they are still having trouble, then go see if medication is needed. Medication is not a dreadful thing, it is just being overused. As you look further into the situation, you can see that medication is being abused. “And as if this were not bad enough, 30%