No_Drugs

No Drugs 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 child, medication, parents, children, way, child’s, behavior, treatment, time, therapy, attention, sometimes, problems, giving, effects, believe, become, because, stimulant, side, reinforcement, one, might, medicine, less, control, wender, think, take, should, rules, reason, putting, put, problem, parental