Comments on: Medicating our children

By: Sheila Winter Wallace

Sheila Winter Wallace — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:19:22 +0000

I am thoroughly pissed off that, as a culture, we think that we can do this to our kids. Medicating our kids is ABUSE, plain and simple. It shares the same jurisdiction as physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal abuse, emotional abuse, mental abuse and spiritual abuse. In this case, it is chemical abuse. Like the others, it tears down lives. It causes alienation of the self and alienation of and by others. By our parental actions, we are actually telling our kids that we can only tolerate them if we force, on them, the means by which to keep them in a coma, so that we can sustain our own coma, too. Kids forced to pay the price of parents who cannot or will not cope with the sheer desperation of their own lives. Kids blamed and faulted for what the parents, themselves, cannot endure. And it is not just the parents, it’s the teachers and the professionals, as well, who engage kids – or not – and make decisions for them based on dumbing beliefs and inaccurate information proliferated by profligate greed.

The word, ‘belief’, means ‘be the lie’… so we’ll just be the lie and live the lie, such that our kids suffer for us. Some kind of warped ’saviourism’, I think, whereby our kids become our redemption for the incorrigible and corrupt fictions that we continue to live – by our choice, remember, by our choice. Only we fool ourselves into believing (you know, ‘be the lie’) that we have no choice.

Did I not read somewhere, ‘Suffer the little children to come unto us’? God help them and God help us. Until we remember whom we really are and whom our children really are (GodForce), we’ll keep projecting our own denied misery on to our offspring, so that they can become the right-to-the- ready lie for their own kids to come.

Enough already. Stop it!

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:09:40 +0000

Thank-you for your comment Louise. It wasnt all that long ago that I was in a conversation with the school principal who was suggesting that I take my daughter to the doctor to get a prescription. This was the first time in 6 years at that school that she clearly did everything she could to not be in the class that day, so she decided to ‘make up’ a illness.
The comments were strong and hard comming from the principal and I wonder about those children who don’t have parents that question ‘authority’ (teachers/principals), the professionals who ‘know best,’ and go a head and choose to drug their children.
My belief is that we’re the voice of our children in these situations and are we listening to others or the people that would so quickly drug them? For myself, talking to my daughter will always come first even before what a so called professional has to say.

Amy

By: Louise LeBrun

Louise LeBrun — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:12:32 +0000

Amy, as I read your words I can feel the heat rising in my body. Intensely! I can think of no better reason than this one – the one that touches the insanity that is quite literally killing our children – to let myself feel it all!

I remember the days when I had to stand long and strong between my children and the school system; between them and teachers who ‘knew best’ what was good for them. They were wrong.

Any adult who has the desire to medicate a child should first examine their own lives. Perhaps, were we to become more introspective about ourselves, we wouldn’t be so quick with the pill bottle.

Thank you, Amy…. for raising your voice and standing tall.

Louise