Guest guest Posted September 3, 2001 Report Share Posted September 3, 2001 Boys are diagnosed with ADHD much more often than girls -- about 2/3rds of the patients by many accounts. I graduated from high school in 1970. We were in a bad neighborhood, with enough affluent families to keep it from being a total poverty pocket. Yes, there were many boys, and a few girls, who disrupted school. At that time it was fashionable to phase out corporeal punishment in high school, so keeping control was very difficult. Then lots of kids started getting into smoking marijuana, and behavior problems diminished -- that particular drug made it a lot easier to sit still in a classroom. Maybe that's where the psychology creeps got the idea to systematically dope up kids. History shows that boys are always more disruptive than girls. That's just the way we're wired as humans. Every society has had to find a way to deal with this fact. You would not believe what some cultures have done to try and solve this problem of unattached young males disrupting everything. Prussians invented wars to send them off. Tewas made them live in special houses until they could talk some older woman into marrying them. A few New Guineans made them hunt heads. Some Native Americans send them off on vision quests. Thais have them shave their heads, wear yellow robes, and wander around begging for a while. Jews make them go through a Bar Mitzvah. I'm sure you can think of other examples. At 03:43 PM 9/2/01 -0500, you wrote: >Hi Mindy, > >I have a nephew who is in drastic need of ADHD help. Can you tell me where to locate this oil? What does it do? > >I don't think I've ever heard of so many children with these problems. We didn't have this when I was a girl. Oh, there would be some boys who would disrupt the class but they either settled down or got corporal punishment. I don't remember any girls who had problems. Is this a male problem or does it affect equally? > >Thanks, > >Jean Baugh >*********************** -- Michael Riversong ** Professional Harpist, Educator, and Writer ** RivEdu ** Phone: (307)635-0900 FAX (413)691-0399 http://home.earthlink.net/~mriversong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 3, 2001 Report Share Posted September 3, 2001 That depends on the person as with all " herbs " , some people get more disruptive (giggling, loud, boisterous) and others get " mellow " (quiet, fall asleep). Steve ----------------------------- Boys are diagnosed with ADHD much more often than girls -- about 2/3rds of the patients by many accounts. I graduated from high school in 1970. We were in a bad neighborhood, with enough affluent families to keep it from being a total poverty pocket. Yes, there were many boys, and a few girls, who disrupted school. At that time it was fashionable to phase out corporeal punishment in high school, so keeping control was very difficult. Then lots of kids started getting into smoking marijuana, and behavior problems diminished -- that particular drug made it a lot easier to sit still in a classroom. Maybe that's where the psychology creeps got the idea to systematically dope up kids. History shows that boys are always more disruptive than girls. That's just the way we're wired as humans. Every society has had to find a way to deal with this fact. You would not believe what some cultures have done to try and solve this problem of unattached young males disrupting everything. Prussians invented wars to send them off. Tewas made them live in special houses until they could talk some older woman into marrying them. A few New Guineans made them hunt heads. Some Native Americans send them off on vision quests. Thais have them shave their heads, wear yellow robes, and wander around begging for a while. Jews make them go through a Bar Mitzvah. I'm sure you can think of other examples. At 03:43 PM 9/2/01 -0500, you wrote: >Hi Mindy, > >I have a nephew who is in drastic need of ADHD help. Can you tell me where to locate this oil? What does it do? > >I don't think I've ever heard of so many children with these problems. We didn't have this when I was a girl. Oh, there would be some boys who would disrupt the class but they either settled down or got corporal punishment. I don't remember any girls who had problems. Is this a male problem or does it affect equally? > >Thanks, > >Jean Baugh >*********************** -- Michael Riversong ** Professional Harpist, Educator, and Writer ** RivEdu ** Phone: (307)635-0900 FAX (413)691-0399 http://home.earthlink.net/~mriversong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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