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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Phrases like "some of her friends are already on it" drive my blood pressure to new levels. Too many parents succomb to peer pressure. But, I do know of situations where drugs were not only useful, but almost indispensible, and you might not see them all from afar. Perfectly normal, enthusiastic kids may be unable to focus enough to get through reading a book. Pyschotropic drugs gave us David Foster Wallace's novels, too, so they have some redeeming value.
I am a firm believer though, that drugs should be a last resort, and the earlier resorts should include religion, travel, diet modification, mutliple physician consults (including a good neurologist), a regular night at the theatre with her parents, and even psychological quakery. I've heard success stories for each of these - perhaps most regularly for diet modification and neurological consults. Suggest some of these alternatives. And let me know if you need expamples of cases where they worked.
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On the other hand, and I know this is going to be an unpopular position, you aren't this child's parent. Nor is Atticus. Nor am I.
I'm doing my best to parent the Brazenette. I make decisions about what's in her best interest, because I am her mother, because I love her to distraction, because I know her better than any other living person. Sometimes I make good decisions and sometimes I make bad decisions. But the bottom line is, as her parent, those decisions are mine to make. It is my obligation, my burden and my joy. And I rankle at the idea that anyone other than me knows better what decision I should have made...
