Be Wary Of Those Meds!

 

From the time boys enter school, their parents are encouraged to have them evaluated for a hyperactivity disorder because teachers, who are limited on how they can discipline, don't know how to handle a child when he still has all of the energy God has given him. So they say, "I believe your son has ADD or ADHD. I believe he needs to be put on some medicine."

Unfortunately, telling a child he needs medication to control his hyperactivity is going to lead to a teenager or young adult thinking he has to put something in his body to help him every time he goes through one of life's storms.

I know the world says medication is the answer, but if it is, why are kids on medicine still often placed in classrooms with a small number of children because they still can't be handled? If medicine is the answer, why do they have to have the meds changed and increased all of the time?

Do you realize there are doctors out there who diagnose children with ADD and ADHD and other hyperactivity disorders who readily admit they have never tested a child for a hyperactivity disorder and determined a child didn't have one? In other words, some claim that every single time they've tested a child for a hyperactivity issue, they've found one. There's something wrong with that logic, isn't there?

Don't get me wrong. I do believe there is a pill that will help your son with his hyperactivity. It's the Goss-pill and it's for the diagnosis of S-I-N. 

What I'm about to tell you isn't popular by any means, but I believe hyperactivity is a form of rebellion. It's a child who has a lot of energy and refuses to use it for the right purposes. We must also recognize that sometimes adults can also be blamed for this. When energetic kids aren't given opportunities to do chores, to play outside, to exercise, etc that energy is going to come out somewhere.

But the Bible says the best way a young man can cleanse his way is by taking heed to the Word of God!

Instead of pumping that boy full of medications, pump him full of the Bible!

Do you know there are ways you can read the Bible at home with him that can be quite fun? Ways that he'll actually enjoy it?

Here's a couple of ideas for you!

Say, "Tonight, we're going to read the first chapter of Romans. You start reading first, and at any time I feel like, I'm going to cut you off and start reading - even if it's right in the middle of a verse. And then whenever you feel like cutting me off and taking over, you can do the same thing to me. We'll do that back and forth until we finish the chapter." You would be amazed how fun that is!

You could also say, "When we read this chapter tonight, I'm going to read three verses, and then you'll read three verses. Let's not read in our normal voices though. The first time I read I'm going to try to sound like a country hick. What kind of voice are you going to use?" You can yell, you can whisper, you can sing, you can laugh.

And then, after you get through a chapter, go back and talk about what you read - just to make sure you didn't get so carried away in silliness that you didn't catch on to what you were reading.