{"id":828,"date":"2014-05-29T17:23:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T01:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=828"},"modified":"2014-05-29T17:23:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T01:23:41","slug":"i-am-glad-my-boys-are-not-children-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/i-am-glad-my-boys-are-not-children-today\/","title":{"rendered":"I am glad my boys are not children today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/i-am-glad-my-boys-are-not-children-today\/\" data-text=\"I am glad my boys are not children today\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s tough to be a boy today. \u00a0We used to say &#8220;boys will be boys&#8221;, now they says &#8220;boys have ADHD&#8221;, and when they say that it is all to often that boys are drugged. \u00a0Boys between seven and twelve years old are being given powerful stimulants with worrisome side effects because, in my opinion, they are normal or nearly normal boys under inept supervision or parenting. \u00a0Boys are physical and like to roughouse. \u00a0They need outlets for their energy &#8211; yet what do our educators tell us? \u00a0That physical sports are dangerous and not appropriate for the playground. \u00a0Someone might get hurt. \u00a0At home, parents are either too stupid or too lazy to engage their children in physical activity. \u00a0Or worse, they too have bought into the &#8220;competitive sports are bad for kids&#8221; bull. \u00a0Then their kids &#8220;won&#8217;t sit still&#8221; and it&#8217;s off to the doctor who, after the alotted 15 minute examination can&#8217;t find anything wrong, but just read an article in the Journal Of Medicine about ADHD and it&#8217;s &#8220;increasing prevalence&#8221;. \u00a0And how do you treat ADHD? \u00a0You guessed it &#8211; drugs. \u00a0Stimulants that are acknowledged to have great potential for abuse.<\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/features\/drugging-of-the-american-boy-0414?src=soc_twtr\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Drugging of the American Boy<\/em> \u00a0at Esquire.com<\/a>, Ryan D&#8217;Agostino lays out some of the (astonishing) statistics. \u00a0Check it out &#8211; I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll be shocked. \u00a0In the meantime, if your boy won&#8217;t sit still, please don&#8217;t drug him. \u00a0Get him into football, basketball, soccer or baseball. \u00a0Let him focus and expend that energy .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet I think it&#8217;s tough to be a boy today. \u00a0We used to say &#8220;boys will be boys&#8221;, now they says &#8220;boys have ADHD&#8221;, and when they say that it is all to often that boys are drugged. \u00a0Boys between seven and twelve years old&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}