tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post1469815409691371987..comments2024-03-28T15:17:43.056-04:00Comments on Stayin' Alive: This must stopCervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11302076828795198187noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post-10586991243470806092009-10-30T13:33:30.094-04:002009-10-30T13:33:30.094-04:00How can it? Stop?
I know 2 middle class families...How can it? Stop?<br /><br />I know 2 middle class families in the US, each has one child who is drugged. <br /><br />Just the one sibling is singled out; the brothers and sisses are said to be doing fine - never mind that one smokes in secret, another .... well no more need be said. To make a caricature, one child is forced to take Ritalin (or fill in whatever substance) and a sibling is selling it on the black market....<br /><br />But that seems to be a badge to respectability, the parents doing their best. <br /><br />One of these families is completely opposed to vaccines as ‘dangerous’, horrendous, etc. The other is ‘meh’ about that issue - they will follow advice from professionals. <br /><br />The pressure to perform is not just to be quiet in class and ‘respect the teacher’ (many of whom support drugging), but to learn to ‘concentrate’, ‘succeed’, etc. but mostly it is the parents wishing to show white hands - that they are conventional, proper ppl, doing the best they can in their society, that they do the max for their children, that the children are difficult, they follow professional advice, they belong to the mainstream, are not nay-sayers, conspiracy theorists, rebels of any kind. <br /><br />See, it used to be the fashion to beat / scare to death children. 1850 - 1930, Anglo world. Parents who were ‘soft’ and ‘delicate’ and went for ‘understanding’ were stigmatized, and they caved in because it affected their children’s future. They beat their children, in the sense that they left the beatings to others. <br /><br />Personally, imho, whacks on the bottom, or even lashes, are less damaging in the long run trhan 5 years of psychotropic drugs. <br /><br />AnaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com