The Children of the Too Hard Basket

622,000 children in the UK are being prescribed Ritalin.

That is one percent of the entire population with so called ADHD - Attention Deficit Disorder.

Over half a million children are being chemically anaesthetised every day.

These are the children of the too hard basket, the products of the welfare state, materialism which drives both parents to work, socialist principles which outlaw competitive games in schools and of the all pervasive and inescapable influx of American born so called culture - a culture of moral dishonesty, of commonplace violence and of disrespect.

Children are like dogs.

They are high spirited, but physical exertion saps them of the negative aspects of this abundant energy.

They are naughty, but training, and boundaries, and indeed punishments teach them to restrain their naughtiness to acceptable levels.

For most of these children, their apparent ADHD is a product of our failings; as parents, as moral guiders, as teachers and as plain old human beings. We have children, but without accepting the full responsibilities that procreation brings.

ADHD is our excuse, the fallback which absolves us from blame, in the case of both our own children, and of those born in the society we have helped to shape.

The dealers of this filthy drug, the cohorts of big pharma, are not without their share of the blame. Their dollars funded the research chicken that laid the ADHD egg.

We wring our hands in despair, and blame the labour party, political correctness and any other convenient popular punch bag. Yes, they have not helped.

But until we accept that we have allowed our world to stray from it's true path, and only we can right this, by action rather than by words alone, then we will remain the parents of overdiagnosed children with artificial chemical intakes, and they will remain the children of the too hard basket.

And we should hang our heads in shame.