Books : Please Don't Label My Child: Break the Doctor-Diagnosis-Drug Cycle and Discover Safe, Effective Choices for Your Child's Emotional Health
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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.9289
EAN num: 9781579546823
ISBN number: 157954682X
Label: Rodale Ltd.
Manufacturer: Rodale Ltd.
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: August 21, 2007
Publishing house: Rodale Ltd.
Release Date: August 21, 2007
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I'm a Mom with a boy whose teacher was eager (really eager) to diagnose him with ADD because he drifts off during math. This book saved us from that cycle of testing and medication. I learned about diet and supplements and how to stand up for my child against a system that wanted to check him off and put a label on his forehead. That label would have made his teacher feel better, but not anyone else. Thank you!!!
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We are parents of three daughters. The two older ones, now age 11 and 6, were diagnozed with ADHD, and the 11 year old with bipolary depression. We fully belive in knowledge and getting help, so both of us has been reading all the books we could get on the topics. We also had individual and family therapy and support. Some helped a lot. Others not at all.
Dr Shannon's book made the most difference of them all. Not only did it guide us to get them off harmfull medication in the right way, by we changed schools and our approach to parenting in a way that made immediate impact.
We keenly reccommend this book to parents who have real life struggles with high spirited kids that just need the correct guidance and help in their own special and unique way. Buy more than one copy, as you might want to give some of your friends the book - but not your own copy!
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I wanted to like this book, despite the horrible title and cover image suggesting that children who do receive diagnoses (and therefore proper help) are simply rambunctious little Huck Finns. I wanted to like it because it does contain some useful information about, for example, supplements such as magnesium. Most American are deficient in this key mineral, and it causes a myriad of health problems, including nervous-system disorders.
I tried to like it despite the cheap-shot title, but I did wonder why a physician would dismiss a valid medical diagnosis as a label. The term "sure-fire marketing technique" does come to mind.
Rule #1: Nothing in life is grey and white. For example, with ADHD, it's not "meds or nutrition" or "meds or coping skills" or "meds or discipline." All children need nutrition, discipline, and coping skills. And many children with ADHD also need medication. So, any argument about ADHD that begins, "but nutrition is important!" is but a distraction. Good nutrition is a given. But even kids with good nutrition have ADHD. Even kids with solid families have ADHD.
Anyone who's not practicing holistic medicine by now--if by that we mean recognizing the importance of nutrition, exercise, routines and rituals, good sleep, and healthy human interactions--might glean something useful in these pages. But many more books do such a better job on that score, and without the anti-brain-science bias. With this one, you must be expert at distinguishing wheat from chaff. And the chaff here is really chafing.
I'm finding that today's latter day snake-oil salesmen are too canny to outright discount valid medical "labels" such as ADHD. In the 21st Century, the public has become far too educated and medically aware; it would dismiss such attempts out of hand.
MDs such as Scott Shannon and Larry Diller employ a clever Trojan Horse: They note early on that they "Men of Medical Science" who fully acknowledge conditions such as ADHD and the occasional necessity for medication (shucks, sometimes they even prescribe them!), but in the same breath they caution that such conditions are overdiagnosed. Children simply need to eat better and enjoy better home lives. Just what a science-phobic public wants to hear, especially when so many children do need to eat better and have more stable home lives.
There's just one little problem: The latest epidemiological data show that children with ADHD are still UNDERdiagnosed and UNDERtreated, especially in poor communities. And that's just one of the flies in the snake oil.
Quite simply, these authors aren't experts in this area, and they apparently don't find it necessary to study the large body of published research. Maybe because it's complex and they don't have the intellectual stamina for it, or because it can't be summarized in a pithy title cooked up by the marketing guys, or because they'd have to listen to authorities who know more than they do.
For whatever reason, they are content to pontificate based solely on their clinical practice (which makes their perceptions highly suspect) . And frankly, given Shannon's peripatetic background, as detailed on his Web site, I wonder when he had time to sit still for a few hours, much less parse the pertinent studies or spend years of careful observation with ADHD patients and the complex issues they face in the family structure.
Isolated in their little clinical practices, not held accountable by peers who demand proof for their claims, wannabee ADHD specialists spin their own narratives. And these narratives often directly pander to what parents want to hear--not what's best for the child. It's so much easier to exploit the vulnerabilities ("please don't label my child"), all the while claiming compassion for the little free spirits that the rest of medical science can hardly wait to enslave into a drugged state. Moreover, these MDs are seeing only the immediate situation, not what happens when these children, whose brain disorders are not treated, grow up.
And that's what makes these kinds of half-cocked guides so reprehensible. We are talking about children's young minds and future possibilities. And the longer that parents postpone finding good care after reading claptrap, the further their children fall behind, often developing negative mindsets about their parents, their teachers, and themselves. Over the years, many become unreachable. And eventually they find that the world doesn't provide the 24/7 structure that hypervigilant parents provided, and they simply cannot cope.
When parents read only books that feed their own denial about the very real nature of brain disorders, they avoid facing the fact that, just maybe, they are the source of their child's genetic disorder and maybe they should seek treatment for it, too, instead of making their children's ... Read More
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As a new parent of a happy, healthy little girl, I am faced with navigating a world for her unlike I experienced in my childhood; a responsibility not taken lightly. In this fast paced world of ipods, television, video games and extreme over-stimulation, I understand the potential developmental challenges we may face with our daughter. Dr. Shannon's book has armed me with a wealth of alternatives to what parents so often turn to...medication.
It is preventative maintenance for the moment, but Dr. Shannon's insight might well mean the difference between a mis-diagonosis and life altering medical experience for Cameron or a simple nutritional adjustment for emotional and physical health.
Please Don't Label My Child is riveting, credible, informative and definiteley one to pass on to all your parent and soon-to-be parent friends.
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This is an excellent resource for parents who really care for their kids emotional and physical well being. Believe me, I know parenting can be challenging, but we owe it to ourselves and our kids to bring them up appropriately and lovingly without leaping to what others think is a cure all. Hats off to Shannon and Heckman for addressing this issue and opening our eyes!
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