No Playtime for You!

16 Replies to “No Playtime for You!”

1. I’m a few notches north of 60 but if the boisterous, playful kid I was then was in school now, they’d have me so drugged up on Ritalin I’d make Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest look sober by comparison. Play was a integral part of the curriculum.

2. A “friend” dumped me over my skepticism of ADHD after he was “diagnosed” with it, which is to say the “diagnostician” turned him into a drug customer. What Jordan said here about BORED BOYS is exactly what I told him. I had the sense that he wanted to “have something” official. He had earlier claimed to be an alcoholic. I was a heavy drinker at the time (I stopped cold turkey 17 years ago) and told him authoritatively that he wasn’t, which he acknowledged in fairly short order. My old man was a bipolar alcoholic.

3. Fighting this in the schools and the culture is going to be a tough row to hoe.

   The teachers and physicians are not going to be denied their authority.

   Pharma is not going to be denied their revenue.

   The diagnosed are not going to be denied their victim status and intersectionality points.

   The parents of the diagnosed are not going to be denied their martyrdom.

   1. The big three:
      Power, money, and looks. Behind all three – pride.

4. And to think that during the pandemic they locked down outdoor playgrounds…

   Cheers

   Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

   1st St Nicolaas Army
   Army Group “True North”

   1. They removed all the basketball hoops at the parks in my town after wrapping the playsets in caution tape. Can’t have a kid shooting baskets, if they were shooting fentanyl on the other hand………..

   2. I was cleaning out my mom’s 16th floor apartment I looked across the street at the pre-school/daycare. They had the kids outside playing, but hey dressed them up in the orange and yellow caution vests. Surprised they weren’t balled up in bubble wrap.

5. My daughter just told me that my 3 yo grandson’s DAY Care Teacher suggested he might have ADHD. Why? Because he doesn’t sit still during “circle time” and quietly listen to the teachers story.

   To quote ‘Uncle Buck’. … “I don’t think I want to know a three-year-old who isn’t a dreamer or a silly heart. And I sure don’t want to know one who takes their student career seriously. I don’t have a college degree. I don’t even have a job. But I know a good kid when I see one. Because they’re all good kids until dried-out, brain-dead skags like you drag them down and convince them they’re no good. You so much as scowl at my niece or any other kid in this school, and I hear about it, and I’m coming looking for you!”

   1. L – Elect a City Council of Uncle Buck’s and one party of same in the
      Legislatures. The whole country would be come Canadian again so
      fast. It would make Justin Trudeau’s head spin…around and around.

6. “Sit still and be bored for seven hours a day.” Sounds like my school experience. Add corporal punishment to the mix and it was a real blast.

7. L – Back in the day, graduating from Grade IV required being a veteran
   of more snowball fights, each week of winter, than you had fingers.

   Every winter, I still shovel snow creating 3 levels of perimeter defence.
   Just in case the fellows across on the West side of the street charge with
   a volley of prepared snowballs. I which case, they are overconfident and
   run out of ammo. This just when, the east defenders have enough
   hidden supplies to rain snowballs like English long bowmen at Agincourt.

   Maturing comes to everyone, growing-up however, passed me by.

8. Since he’s just a psychologist and not a psychiatrist, Jordan has never prescribed a psychiatric medication of any kind, and he has never been formally educated to do so. He proved his ignorance when he admitted that he became addicted to benzodiazepines because he didn’t know that they’re addictive. He trots out a rat study because no human study backs up his claim, and then he admits that ADHD medications don’t cause dramatic negative consequences. At 7:03 it seemed like the god of hypocrisy was having some fun with him.

   1. ADHD, another farce by the “medical” community. There is way to much B S out there and you seem to support it.

   2. Well, then you can listen to a psychiatrist with the ability to prescribe on the same topic:

      https://youtu.be/LM11rsRwCY0

9. A couple of the grandbrats have been diagnosed with ADHD. Family figured this out – and, I might say, reluctantly – when watching kids in “rugrat hockey”. First saw it in elder kid who would just sort of wander about the ice and chat to other players. Out of desperation while at a hockey tournament, parents gave kid a caffeine pill which resulted in much better concentration. The kid would say that, when given the caffeine pill, “lazy me goes away”. Younger sib followed a similar path. Both are on meds to help them concentrate and – deo volente and a lot of effort from very concerned parents and grandparents – they’ll be okay.
   Sorry, Dr Peterson, but when it hits it is brutal. I agree that there is often a misdiagnosis for energetic kids (boys especially), but don’t minimize the issues for families where this is a proper diagnosis and the last thing they need is “it’s really rare”.

   1. Question, why the hell would you want to give a kid a drug just because he seemed lazy? You are interfering with the bodies chemistry with out any idea what it might cause in the future. How the hell did human beings ever advance without modern “medicine”? Medicine that is now killing and injuring millions.