Its not just the peanuts that was a sudden change, it seemed like just overnight, it was frowned upon if you spanked your kids. Child abuse, everyone claimed. It seemed like these child psychologists came from the bleeding hearts mill, and now every child has a disorder of some sort, there are no stupid kids out there anymore, now they have "Learning Disorders" or "Attention deficit disorder" and there are pills and prescriptions for every single type of disorder you can think of.
I often wonder if we were to do a psychiatric evaluation on every person on this planet, if they would find a little bit of A.D.D. in everyone, and maybe more in others.
My friend has kids in school and one of them was feeling down so they decided to talk to the councilor that worked there. The councilor gave the child a questionnaire and asked them to fill it out. My friend's kid brought that questionnaire home and this is what it said:
- Do you think of suicide?
- Have you ever tried to commit suicide?
- What sorts of suicide have you tried.
- Have you purposely harmed yourself?
- How many times do you think of committing suicide a day?
- How many times do you think of suicide a week?
What do you think these sort of questions would do to a young impressionable mind that isn't thinking about suicide at all? These questions are leading a person down a certain type of thought path, if I wasn't thinking about suicide before, I sure am now.
A child that maybe had a fight with their friend, or got dumped, or lost their phone, goes to talk to an adult that is supposed to help them and then gets this questionnaire to fill out is totally unacceptable and it needs to stop.
I don't think spoiling and pampering the children of tomorrow is the right answer. I think constant positive motivation would work much better in any scenario. I don't think we should go back to spanking but we definitely need better punishments than the ones we have now.
I think the whole psychiatric evaluation thing needs to toned down, these doctors come up with problems that aren't even there, it seems to me that its to justify their job.
How many people that go to see psychiatric doctors get told that they are fine and just need a good night sleep? I would say NONE! The doctors would say we are afflicted with some sort of neurological disorder and here is the steps for treatment. And....
It all started with Peanut butter and jam
Scott Goerz
