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"Parental heaven is when you see your child through the
eyes of delight."
- John Breeding
Described as "a resource site for parents and a challenge
to the biomedical mental health industry", this is a web site
of enormous importance at a time when millions of children and
adults are receiving dangerous psychotropic drugs for unproven
"disorders".
The website owner, Dr. John Breeding, is a Texas psychologist
whose primary focus is on parents and children. His book of the
same title calls for a halt to the epidemic drugging of young
people in our society for "so-called ADHD". It is his
belief that years of research and clinical use have failed to
confirm any positive long-term effects from Ritalin in behavior or
academic performance.
The author is a leading advocate for young people and his
excellent website serves as an important resource for parents
wanting support to resist the pressure to label and drug their
children. His writings challenge the use of Ritalin and the
drugging of children, and offer alternative approaches to the
issues teachers, parents and children face in today's world.
Dr. Breeding is the founding Director of Texans for Safe
Education, a citizens group formed to protect children from harm
caused by the increasing role of psychiatry in schools. He
believes that "Something is seriously wrong [when] hundreds
of thousands of children, mostly boys, are being forced to take
dangerous drugs because we, as a society, have chosen to turn
normal behavior into "symptoms" of a
"disease."
The entire text of an 18-page booklet, a predecessor to the
book, has generously been included on the site. The booklet lists
these critical warnings and explains each one in detail:
- Your Child Is Being Selected Out Because of
"Unacceptable" Behavior
- Selection Means Diagnosis Means Treatment
- Treatment Means Drugs
- These Drugs Are Dangerous
- These Drugs Do Not Help Your Child
The unique and very useful section "Remembrance"
reminds us that children are "young human beings with
enormous dependency needs." The importance of food, light,
sound, and talk are emphasized. An exceptional essay from The
Wildest Colts book, "Parent Heaven and Hell: A Note on
Punishment" concludes, "Punishment … begets fear, and
secrecy, and shame, and tense separation from the ones we are
meant to love and cherish."
Among numerous other helpful essays and documents, the site
also includes "Parenting as Emotional Healing",
"Support Resources for Psychiatric Survivor/Activists",
"A Model Consent Form for Children and Psychiatric
Drugs" (a must read), and "The Totality of the ADHD
Fraud". The web site also has a section on the dangers of
electroshock treatment as well as a description of Dr. Breeding's
newest book The Necessity of Madness and Unproductivity:
Psychiatric Oppression or Human Transformation.
This informative and inspiring website, and Dr. Breeding's
books, can help us all to see children "through the eyes of
delight".
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