A year or so ago, my sister was tasked to look after two children in a classroom/tutorial type of setting.
After ignoring repeated instructions to sit down and perform the task at hand, the child on my sister’s right grinned mischievously and said, “I can’t. I didn’t have my medication today.”
The child on her left, however, rolled her eyes and muttered, “Well, I didn’t have my medication today, either, and I can still control myself.”
Such a scenario makes one wonder: is our society becoming too dependent on medicating today’s children?
Is it sometimes easier to thrust a pill into their mouths rather than put up with their energy or train them to restrain themselves at the appropriate times?...
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