Dawson Church
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 Robin Grille, a psychologist from New Zealand, has done extensive surveys of the parenting literature of warlike populations.7 For instance, the most popular Prussian parenting manuals in the 19th century stressed that children should be absolutely obedient, and that the most minor infraction should be punished with beating. Beating children several times a day was not uncommon, and was not considered unusual or cruel. It was simply the accepted German nineteenth century paradigm of good parenting. |
Michele Simon
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 An epidemic of bad parenting?
Has something drastic happened to parenting skills in recent years? Has a sudden outbreak of parental irresponsibility taken hold of the nation, precipitating a rise in childhood obesity and other problems over which parents were once firmly in control? In the vivid imagination of food marketers, the rise in childhood obesity can only be explained by bad parenting.
Protecting children in other ways
Most people recognize that powerful business forces sometimes need to be constrained by government intervention. |
Dawson Church
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| For instance, the most popular Prussian parenting manuals in the 19th century stressed that children should be absolutely obedient, and that the most minor infraction should be punished with beating. Beating children several times a day was not uncommon, and was not considered unusual or cruel. It was simply the accepted German nineteenth century paradigm of good parenting.
But it produced the generations who fought the Franco-Prussian war (successfully for the Germans), and then World Wars I and II (unsuccessfully for the Germans). |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Further evidence of our insane health care policies (and perhaps an indicator of parenting as well) is how we treat kids diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). According to data from the CDC, 4.4 million U.S. children between the ages of 4 and 17 are currently receiving medication for this disorder. This condition is caused in part by an overload of processed foods laced with food colorings, preservatives, flavor enhancers, high fructose syrups, synthetic sweeteners and a variety of other chemical compounds. |
Charles Barber
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 At first Rex just sat in the dayroom clutching his pad and stared off into space, or slept, or paced, but after a while that got boring and he inevitably started to take notice of the numerous activities at the clinic such as the daily groups held on medications, substance abuse, education about mental illness, parenting, and so on. For the first time, Rex ventured into the room where all these meetings were held, and over time he became one of the most consistent attendees, all the while holding his pad. Over time he responded in particular to the group on substance abuse. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They simply need honest nutrition, responsible parenting and to be kept away from refined sugars, petrochemical food additives and processed foods.
Ritalin / Adderall addicts snort the meds like cocaine
Here's a Q&A from GoAskAlice (http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/3703.html) that explains, in more detail, the ways in which Ritalin and Adderall are, in fact, dangerous street drugs:
Dear Alice,
Recently I have started snorting Ritalin and Adderall (not at the same time though). I have found that the effects closely resemble that of snorting cocaine, but are not quite as intense. |
Alex Steffen
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 It's sort of like parenting: reading guides to child rearing may give us some good ideas and help us avoid some common problems, but ultimately everyone's parenting style is shaped by their children. Similarly, the right community spaces are the ones that reflect and respect their surroundings. Every good neighborhood is at its best when it is most like itself.
There are some general strategies that tend to work. Meet the neighbors. Promote good, compact development. People naturally gravitate toward certain locations and atmospheres, so allow established spaces to form around organic hubs. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Contemporary stressors, like worrying about paying the mortgage, doing the jobs of three people, dealing with an unhappy marriage, or grappling with ongoing parenting issues, tend to be more long-term. A life stressor can be considered chronic if it persists for three or more months. Instead of pumping out more adrenaline, the adrenal glands respond to chronic stress by secreting more Cortisol. Because chronic stress is ongoing, high Cortisol levels do not subside until the stress is removed or the adrenal glands exhausted.
Over time, elevated Cortisol levels can wreak havoc on your body. |
Bottom Line Health
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| For instance, I might use triggers in my office to remember business contacts and triggers in the kids' playroom to remember people with whom I discuss parenting.
Helpful: Once you use a particular room, don't use it again for a few days or weeks. Otherwise, previous associations can interfere with new ones.
How to Keep Your Memory Strong
Using all five senses to help you remember tasks and learn new things will keep your memory strong.
In addition to visualizing an object or event, imagine how it would smell, taste and feel. |
Andreas Moritz
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 They equate it with irresponsible parenting. These doctors blindly rely on recommendations made by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). In October 2004, CDC representatives announced their recommendation that children aged 6 months to 23 months should receive flu shots (which contain thimerosal) as part of the standard schedule of immunizations. Steve Cochi, the acting director of the National Immunization Program, underlined the CDC's official view of the vaccine-autism connection, citing a "lack of scientific evidence. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 If rats that were treated well turned out well regardless of their genetic makeup, then that means their personalities developed in response to their parenting. Score one for Mother Nurture.
Not so fast.
An analysis of the rats' genes showed striking differences in methylation patterns between the two sets of rats. Rat pups that were attentively groomed by their mothers (biological or adopted) showed a decrease in methyl markers around the genes involved with brain development. |
Alex Steffen
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| It's sort of like parenting: reading guides to child rearing may give us some good ideas and help us avoid some common problems, but ultimately everyone's parenting style is shaped by their children. Similarly, the right community spaces are the ones that reflect and respect their surroundings. Every good neighborhood is at its best when it is most like itself.
There are some general strategies that tend to work. Meet the neighbors. Promote good, compact development. People naturally gravitate toward certain locations and atmospheres, so allow established spaces to form around organic hubs. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| And while we don't know whether neonatal parenting is actually changing brain development, scientists who study this epigenetic connection in animals believe it's very unlikely that humans don't share it. In fact, the total picture suggests humans should be more prone to epigenetic effects in infancy. After all, cognitive development and physical development after birth in humans are much more significant than they are in most other mammals. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
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 Problems in parenting or parenting styles may make ADHD better or worse, but these do not cause the disorder. ADHD is clearly a brain-based disorder. Currently research is under way to better define the areas and pathways that are involved."25
Huh? Where does one begin to wade through this psycho-babble yah, yah? In a nutshell, CHADD is as clueless as the NIH, the APA and the pharmaceutical companies when it comes to the cause(s) of ADHD. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 But it's hard to imagine that the incredible increase in psychiatric prescriptions for teenagers and children is due entirely to an epidemic of psychiatric disorders, that some combination of bad parenting, bad genes, and bad videos has created an entire nation of screwed-up kids. We're also in the midst of an epidemic of diagnoses, in which children who exhibit behavior that is even mildly out of the norm are labeled and treated, along with the kids who are truly mentally ill. The question is, why are we now so quick to diagnose mental illness? |
Michele Simon
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| Has something drastic happened to parenting skills in recent years? Has a sudden outbreak of parental irresponsibility taken hold of the nation, precipitating a rise in childhood obesity and other problems over which parents were once firmly in control? In the vivid imagination of food marketers, the rise in childhood obesity can only be explained by bad parenting.
Protecting children in other ways
Most people recognize that powerful business forces sometimes need to be constrained by government intervention. |
Dawson Church
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| It requires paying primary attention to the physical connection with the person you're with, and is part of what prenatal psychologists call "attachment parenting."
The same is true for the healing encounter. The client in front of the doctor doesn't want to rattle off a list of symptoms for evaluation, and is not assessing the doctor by how fast she comes up with a prescriptive solution. The client is suffering, and needs understanding and empathy. Tuning in to people in order to understand their afflictions cannot be done at the same pace as drag racing. |
Melody Petersen
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 Society should aim to improve children's behavior through families and the community, he said, rather than use the medical system to hand out pills. parenting is a skill that can be taught, he said, and the state could help by having more social workers visit troubled families at home. While psychiatric medications might be okay for some adults, Dr. Lobas said, most children need help in ways that don't involve pills. "Kids are not small adults," he said. "Kids need to be supported and loved and they'll turn out okay. |
Dawson Church
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| It was simply the accepted German nineteenth century paradigm of good parenting.
But it produced the generations who fought the Franco-Prussian war (successfully for the Germans), and then World Wars I and II (unsuccessfully for the Germans). Grille claims that there are many other historical examples of societies that practiced mass childhood cruelty subsequently producing generations of brutal and martially-minded adults. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Many of the symptoms that children are medicated for are more appropriately dealt with by treating the root causes, such as childhood abuse and other traumas, lack of appropriate two-family parenting, lack of supervision, lack of role models, exposure to violence in the schools, and the failure of social service agencies to appropriately provide for these children.
Diet and Behavior
The topic of children and nutrition is a huge one that is beyond the scope of this book. I urge you to seek out credible nutritional information if you have a child, particularly one who has behavior problems. |
Dawson Church
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| As research proceeds, it is likely that the genetic effects of the treatment children receive will be mapped, and the epigenetic effects of parenting will be more fully understood. As a society, we will then have the understanding required to tackle social problems at their sources in childhood, rather than merely trying to ameliorate their effects played out in adulthood.
The study's authors compared our current medical practice of treating diseases to a fireman trying to get rid of billows of smoke? |
Greg Critser
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 Indeed, one study at the time indicated that many of the same elements of the Zoloft Woman campaign, with its unattainable ideal of beauty and grace combined with the perfect juggling of work and parenting, could also be one of the causes of depression in the first place. But that observation did not make it into the next iteration of the campaign.
Almost immediately, Steere knew he had a hit. Sales jumped. But how to take on Prozac, the real cash cow? Here was where Pfizer's medical affairs department, staffed with M.D.s and Ph.D.s, took over. |
James Howard Kunstler
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 In the modern era, entropy has been expressed in conditions as seemingly unrelated as war, industrial pollution, pornography, mass political murder, the shattering of a consensus about the value of money, and incompetent parenting. The introduction of high entropy into a given system is profoundly destabilizing in many ways. Entropy, like God, moves in mysterious ways.
For instance, to many historians the precise cause of World War I remains an abiding puzzle. Why should the assassination of an Austrian prince in Serbia lead England and France to yield a combined 2. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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 Brandon was initially detoxified and his mother Katherine participated in effective parenting sessions. Brandon's real problems—hearing and learning difficulties—were identified. Brandon is now drug free, happy, well-behaved (for a 13 year old boy), and with extra in-class support he is performing well academically.
Virtually all the symptoms of ADHD relate to classroom behavior. Children who don't do homework, fidget, squirm, interrupt, and are forgetful and disorganized are assumed to have a biochemical imbalance in their brain. |
Bruce H. Lipton
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 In particular, fascinating new research is emphasizing the importance of good parenting in the development of the brain: "For the growing brain of a young child, the social world supplies the most important experiences influencing the expression of genes, which determines how neurons connect to one another in creating the neuronal pathways which give rise to mental activity," writes Dr. Daniel J. Siegel in The Developing Mind. [Siegel 1999] In other words, infants need a nurturing environment to activate the genes that develop healthy brains. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Of course, there's more to it than just nutrition; there are things like good parenting, a great living environment, a challenging learning environment and so on. But in terms of the nutritional aspect, it only takes a few dollars. Nutrition doesn't have to be expensive.
Investing in the health of our children is a bargain
To cover the nutrition basics only costs a few dollars a month, and that investment would pay off so much in our society. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These poor parenting decisions negatively impact the potential of those children for the rest of their lives.
Afraid to risk losing at a sport
Other parents say they don't want their children participating in sports where there are losers. They want everyone to be a winner, and they're afraid to have their child ever lose a game, miss an award or appear as a loser. This attitude is based on some kind of bizarre overprotection syndrome, I suppose. In the real world, there are winners and losers. |
Jay Joseph
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 Environmental factors include parenting styles, treatment, abuse, oppression, chemicals, viruses, accidents, and so on.
Eugenics. A doctrine which holds that humans can be "improved" by selective breeding to eradicate "undesirable" traits in society. Eugenicists argue that many social problems and psychiatric disorders are caused by inherited genetic traits in people, which can be bred out of the population for the benefit of future generations. Many German eugenicists of the first half of the 20th century preferred the term racial hygiene to eugenics.
Euthanasia. |
Bruce H. Lipton
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| The essence of conscious parenting is that both mothers and fathers have important responsibilities for fostering healthy, intelligent, productive and joy-filled children. We surely cannot blame ourselves, nor our parents for failures in our own or our children's lives. Science has kept our attention focused on the notion of genetic determinism, leaving us ignorant about the influence beliefs have on our lives, and more importantly, how our behaviors and attitudes program the lives of our children. |
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