by Dr. Jeremey Fritz

by Dr. Jeremy Fritz

Remember the days when kids would walk to school, ride their bikes to play with friends, and spend the day exploring outside? They would make up games using nature and movement as the only ingredients.

by Sarah Major, M.Ed

Lately I’ve been reading books written by professionals who work with children with short attention spans, and children who have already been diagnosed with ADD. It seems to me that there has been a significant upsurge in the numbers of children who have difficulty maintaining focus on their school tasks, so many who have been diagnosed with ADD and put on medication, and I have become very curious not only about what has caused this upsurge, but of course, what we can do to make school lessons easier for these children short of medicating them.

by Naomi Aldort

Q: I have read your first column on labels in the last issue and I understand that most labels are useless at best. But what about symptoms like dyslexia? Isn’t that physical? And don’t drugs offer a great relief in some situations when a child simply cannot sit still or learn?

By Naomi Aldort

Q:   If my son were in school, he would have been labeled ADHD and given Ritalin. But even without school, I often wonder. Are these labels real? Should I worry?