ADHD and Breakfast Cereals or What Are You Feeding Your Children For Breakfast? Are you giving them cereal or other foods that cause ADHD?  And then having to give them an ADHD drug (Vivanase, Ritalin, Concerto or some such) for dessert? Recently, I have been visiting with some relatives and then some friends whose children are on some of these mood altering drugs for ADHD.  Real problems with ADHD and breakfast cereals.  I discovered what

Are Schools Pushing Drugs?Are Schools Pushing Drugs? For many years it has somehow become a right of Schools to push drugs for ADHD and the like or insist children take drugs. In my words they, “push” drugs on children. In North America anyway. I’ve heard this story for years from others:  Recently, a niece of ours felt she had to put her son on some ADHD drug after being called to the school a number

Guns, Drugs, and Big Pharma - Common Threads Every time I’m around police of any sort and have a chance to ask a certain question, I do.  I’ve asked this question of SWAT teams in Toronto, Canada and Sheriffs in small towns in the US of A.  And the answer is pretty consistent. Almost word for word, really. The Question First time this came up was at a small trade show I was working in

The Importance of Play I’ve read recently a number of books on home schooling, education and also some references on exercise.  With these and other references, there is a definite stress on the subject of ‘Play’.  And the importance of just having fun in what you are doing.  I just finished reading The 5 Hour School Week by Aleena Amuchastegui.  A pretty good sales pitch on home schooling.  Already sold on the subject long since,

Observation - Looking - A Lost Art The majority of people just don’t look. This is a bit of a rant.  I know way too many people that will only ‘see’ things through the filter of the media.  Whatever science the media claims to be so, then that is so, no matter what they see in from of them.  I’ve noticed this quite dramatically over the last three years.  A friend’s daughter who I chat