Gift of ADD/ADHD - How To Treat

Ritalin is a consumer item for most parents, something to give the kid, like a wii box or braces or whatever is popular today.  The powers that be, following Huxley, condition teachers (and some parents) to see a kid who mind can go in ten directions at once and say

"O no!  My kid's mind goes in 10 directions at once!"

A propoer response to realizing your kid has a mind goes in 10 directions at once is

"My kid's mind goes in 10 directions at once.  So what?"

The mind goes in the right direction, it merely goes in 9 others too, at the same time.  So what?

But, the kid cannot study!

No, the course is boring.  By 10 minutes into the lesson, the kid has checked it out nine other ways, and has already figured it out: whole language is bogus.  New math is bogus.  State history is untrue.  If you already know that it is all a waste of time, then why pay attention?

How can you say new math or whole language is bogus.

Well, there is no science to support its efficacy.

But plenty of kids excel with this pedagogy.  No, the only kids who excel in school are those with parental involvement.  Kids spend 8 hours a day in front of essentially TSA workers who drone on about nothing.  They then go home and have their parents teach them the lessons, or go to khanacademy.org, or otherwise learn the topic.  They do well.

Love is defined as wanting the good for the other.  If you love your children, and he has ADD, then homeschool him.  Let him study math, language and music in 4 minute increments, and be finished at 10 am to snoboarding the rest of the day.  One parent may have to quit a job, but if you pencil it out, you'll learn you are probably not giving anything up.

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