Bi-Polar Disorder
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Personality Disorder
Attention Deficit Disorder
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
These are just a few of the labels we throw on our children now. They grow up, looking to become something, anything.... And yet within a few years, if our kid does not behave or become someone/something that we've envisioned them to be, we quickly slap a label on them.
Oh, don't get me wrong, it doesn't stop there. We also try to modify their behavior by throwing handfuls and handfuls of pills down their throat.
Ritalin
Lithium
Prozac
Xanax
Haldol
Welbutrin
Paxil
Zoloft
Ativan
Adderrall
Society has changed to the point where they rely too much on doctors who are "practicing medicine" to raise our children through the use of anti-psychotic, anti-depressive drugs.
Back in my day, we didn't get labeled with those names...
We got labeled with names like:
Spoiled Brat
Spaz
Hyper
Retarded
And usually those names fit. They fit because that's how we acted. And no one treated us with drugs to try and set us "right" as was deemed in someone else's eyes. They knew a 6 year old little boy should be rambunctious. They knew that little girls are sometimes catty. They knew sometimes little kids fight, and sometimes some kids were just plain stupid (retarded). If we didn't behave with respect when we were supposed to, we got spanked and taught how we were to act, in regards to each individual situation.
But then some dumbass doctor decided to write a paper and pronounce that spankings were detrimental to the health and well being of the development of children. Really? Did he really just say that?
So now we've had to create all sorts of "labels" for our children in order to treat them instead of disciplining them. Our discipline is now chemically based.
And look where it's gotten us today as a society and culture....
Proverbs 13.24
The one who spares his rod of discipline hates his child, but the one who loves his child is diligent in disciplining him.
Now don't get me wrong, discipline is COMPLETELY different from abuse. But that subject is for another day...
Monday, May 16, 2011
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I struggle to believe that doctors are doing more than just 'practicing medicine'. Talk to two different doctors and you get two different answers. (I think it depends on who is padding their pockets) We're a chemically dependent society that negates personal responsibility. Children can't learn disciple if they have no responsibility to begin with.
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