{"id":1037,"date":"2012-01-08T13:23:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T21:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2012-01-08T13:56:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T21:56:15","slug":"thoughts-on-education-adhd-and-child-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/thoughts-on-education-adhd-and-child-development","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts On Education, ADHD, And Child Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"creativity\" border=\"2\" height=\"106\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-content\/uploads\/creativity(1).jpg\" width=\"132\" \/><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I teach an online College course on Lifespan Human Development and posted this video for discussion about education and creativity. <\/span><\/div>\n<p><span _fck_bookmark=\"1\" style=\"display: none;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><span _fck_bookmark=\"1\" style=\"display: none;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hkPvSCq5ZXk\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe> <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">We all have our own biases about life &ndash; I certainly have mine and one is <a href=\"..\/maybe-its-not-addadhd\">ADD\/ADHD<\/a>, which I have posted about.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Another bias is about our increasingly dysfunctional educational system where we are still stuck in our teaching ideas much the same as when I was in school &ndash; and it was dysfunctional way back then.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I love this video as it says so much in its 11+ minutes &ndash; and I have watched it many times; each time learning something and&ldquo;seeing&rdquo; parts I missed the other times.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">For example, I was not aware of the ADD epidemic being so East Coast oriented. [But then I lived in Boston when a local professional published the first research on Ritalin.] From that time to now, medication was seemingly the first, and often only, thought about &ldquo;what to do with children who are active.&rdquo;&nbsp; As a Developmental Psychologist, I asked, and still ask, &ldquo;Aren&rsquo;t kids supposed to curious and active?&rdquo;<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I&rsquo;m not saying there is no such thing as ADHD, but I am still saying we need to look at what is going on in schools and homes &ndash; especially around alleged &ldquo;foods&rdquo; &#8211; and seek <a href=\"..\/..\/beinghealthy\/helping-your-children\">nutritional alternatives<\/a> to drugging kids and adults.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: red;\"><b>Ok &ndash; now you have my bias&#8230;do you have an opinion about all this?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: red;\"><b>I&rsquo;ll use the comments for ideas about new posts and give you credit for aiding and abetting my brain&#8230;.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I teach an online College course on Lifespan Human Development and posted this video for discussion about education and creativity. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; We all have our own biases about life &ndash; I certainly have mine and one is ADD\/ADHD, which I have posted about. &nbsp; Another bias is about our increasingly dysfunctional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[474,475,489,532,379,490,381,385,480,360,487,488],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology-and-parenting","tag-add","tag-adhd","tag-changing-paradigms","tag-child-development","tag-child-psychology","tag-drugs","tag-education","tag-human-interest","tag-parenting","tag-parents","tag-school-kills-creativity","tag-sir-ken-robinson","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}