Comments: Aussie Toddlers On Ritalin
I don't know, this is just crazy. I cannot imagine giving anything to a toddler, they are little free spirits, learning to talk in sentences, and (mine were all running at age 2, never a dull moment!)I just wonder about the interruption of the development stage, and the verbal aquisition that happens then, as well as the growing brain.
Posted by Stephany at May 29, 2008 04:30 PM
Ritalin, Cocaine - what's the difference?
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Posted by Lilly NC at May 29, 2008 09:40 PM
That is our drug double standard...
Adults are considered criminal in many places if they smoke a joint or - God forbid - grow that naty herb, yet to kids we prescribe far worse and government thinks nothing of it.
That is the power of money. As long as it's "grown" in a pharmaceutical vat and can be sold for a lot of money, it's ok.
Posted by Sepp at May 30, 2008 01:19 AM
No boxing. I agree.
Posted by Marissa at May 30, 2008 09:16 AM
Exactly!
Much less why would you want to put such a young child on medication? Shouldn't your first port of call be a couple of years of intensive behavioural therapy rather than drugs?
Even if you can make the diagnosis why make the leap to use medication at such a young age? It's patently absurd for a health system to say that they've exhausted all other possible options in a two year old. Really.
Posted by CatatonicKid at June 1, 2008 07:12 AM