The Ritalin-Free Child: Managing Hyperactivity & Attention Deficits Without Drugs

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Summary: I now need a third copy
Review: I saw Diana in person at an Early Childhood Conference, bought her book and have benefited greatly by the information. Strange thing though... I have loaned out two copies to friends with children on ritilin and the book isn't one to make it back, seems it is a good reference for ongoing parenting of a child exhibiting symptoms of ADHD. Many useful tips and I recomend the book.

Rating:
Summary: I now need a third copy
Review: I saw Diana in person at an Early Childhood Conference, bought her book and have benefited greatly by the information. Strange thing though... I have loaned out two copies to friends with children on ritilin and the book isn't one to make it back, seems it is a good reference for ongoing parenting of a child exhibiting symptoms of ADHD. Many useful tips and I recomend the book.

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Summary: Let's stop drugging our children!
Review: The Ritalin Free child is a book that I have read and recommended to everyone I've met as a volunteer in the kindergarten through fourth grade classroom. Working with children on a daily basis, I see first hand how many of these children have had total changes in their behavior just by addressing the foods that they eat. This book has not only background information with regard to the drug ritalin and its many side effects, but also gives key instruction on how to manage your child's behavior without the use of drugs, preferring instead the natural mode of delivery being that of healthy foods and herbal remedies designed to encourage good health rather than an artificially stimulated child. Anyone buying this book will be thankful that at last, a book containing information designed to help parents help their children in a natural and healthy way rather than encouraging them to continue to medicate with potentially harmful chemicals. I say Amen to Diana Hunter's philosophy and hope that in the future, all parents seek other, more healthy ways to help their child adjust to the world in which we all live, rather than accepting the social directive of the times. Be aware!

Rating:
Summary: Let's stop drugging our children!
Review: The Ritalin Free child is a book that I have read and recommended to everyone I've met as a volunteer in the kindergarten through fourth grade classroom. Working with children on a daily basis, I see first hand how many of these children have had total changes in their behavior just by addressing the foods that they eat. This book has not only background information with regard to the drug ritalin and its many side effects, but also gives key instruction on how to manage your child's behavior without the use of drugs, preferring instead the natural mode of delivery being that of healthy foods and herbal remedies designed to encourage good health rather than an artificially stimulated child. Anyone buying this book will be thankful that at last, a book containing information designed to help parents help their children in a natural and healthy way rather than encouraging them to continue to medicate with potentially harmful chemicals. I say Amen to Diana Hunter's philosophy and hope that in the future, all parents seek other, more healthy ways to help their child adjust to the world in which we all live, rather than accepting the social directive of the times. Be aware!

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Summary: A helpful guide to raising a hyperactive child
Review: The Ritalin-Free Child is filled with helpful thoughts and insights into dealing with this disorder.Written in plain english and not technical jargon, so anyone can grasp these useful suggestions and use them in their day to day struggles in dealing with this disorder without medication. Should be a mandatory read for every parent with or without an ADHD child.

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Summary: Ritalin Free Kids; Safe & Effective Homeopathic Medicines
Review: written by Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, N.D., M.S.W. and Robert Ullman, N.D. in Edmunds, Washington

Over two million American childen have been forced on Ritalin in the last ten years. A source describing what Ritalin really is chemically and how it acts in the landscape of the body's chemistry has yet to be provided. However, I know from experience that Ritalin is over-prescribed in American schools and the detriments are not appropriately revealed to instructors, administrators, parents or children. The fact that some schools demand that children be put on Ritalin or else is a crime, and should be remanded as such to discourage this injustice. Ritalin is a drug that often has extreme adverse side effects from high blood pressure to sterility.

The decision to have a child take Ritalin should always be a well-educated choice with viable natural alternatives provided. This book describes some of the homeopathic alternatives from rattlesnake venom to the saliva of a rabid animal. While this sounds like medicine from Harry Potter's aunt Mable, homeopathic remedies do provide sound natural alternatives to manufactured drugs like Ritalin that can and often do produce adverse side effects. Many of the best natural remedies are not developed by pharmaceutical companies because they cannot be patented and thereby exploited by these companies. Medicine for thought!

Behavioral modification via drugs should never be used as a ultimatim to parents and children. There should be active support groups that allow parents and children to safely explore alternatives to behavioral management challenges and to decline, if they believe it is best, any oral remedy.

Grape seed extract and other herbal medications are my favorite, but the fact that rattlesnake venom could potentially redirect the hyper-sensitivity and potentially violent behavior of any person into a productive creative role as a citizen in modern society is extremely attractive to me, especially condsidering the lack of limiting side-effects in many natural remedies.

Read about the diverse remedies available for yourself, and do not be afraid to demand the right to broaden the theraputic and medicinal horizons for yourself, your children and/or your students. It often seems far too easy for time-challenged peers, teachers and parents to label and harass people whether children or adults who are marginalized or suffering behavioral challenges for whatever reason than for society to develop more nurturing avenues of respectful support and healing transformation. When I worked as a clinical childcare worker, often the best remedy for behavioral problems was consistent healthy attention over time and good old fashion unconditional Love! A miracle cure that creates a natural chemistry of success!