Alison Bass was a speaker and in attendance at the ICSPP conference on the travesty of drugging our kids last week. Today she posts a few thoughts that came out of the conference. Below is the opening of her piece. Click through to her blog to read the rest.
When my son was in kindergarten, he wrestled with his classmates and bit one of them, and his teacher (who was one or two years out of school) suggested that I get him tested for “neurological issues.” I ran her suggestion past my son’s pediatrician, and he said that my son’s behavior was well within normal range for an active five-year-old. “He doesn’t need to be tested,” he said.
My son is now a healthy, well-adjusted 20-year-old excelling in college. But that long-ago episode came back to me this weekend when I was listening in on several panel sessions at the ICSSP conference in Syracuse (where I had been invited to speak). The theme of the conference was how to help parents deal with difficult children through “evidence-based” interventions rather than medicating them. (read the rest)
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