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Did you know that more than 17 million children worldwide have been prescribed psychiatric drugs? Are you aware that children 5 years old and younger are the fastest-growing population prescribed antidepressants in the U.S.? Did you know most parents are not informed about all the potential risks to their child when they agree to a psychiatric drug prescription? Do you realize at this very moment at least 6,000,000 U.S. school children are being administered Ritalin or other addictive, mind-altering, psychiatric drugs? I believe we have a rather large problem in America today. It is not the conflict in the Middle East, it’s not about our corrupt government and it’s not about poor medical insurance or the homeless. It is about how America is legally drugging our children. And guess what America? We are letting them do it! The number of American children being diagnosed with psychiatric illnesses has soared in the past few years. Doctors are now diagnosing 1 in 10 children with some sort of mental illness. Meanwhile, prescriptions for preschoolers have skyrocketed. Please note what I said just now; preschool! That means we are giving our children psych drugs that are under the age of six. Did you know that in 1994 it was recorded that 3,000 prescriptions for Prozac were prescribed for infants under the age of one (Napoli, 2000)? What is so upsetting about this is that recent studies indicate that 40% of children being treated with drugs for psychiatric conditions are taking two or more of them at a time. Most of these antipsychotic drugs have never been tested in clinical trials with children, let alone in combination with other potent drugs acting on the developing brain. What is even more alarming is parents are allowing this to happen. A nervous twitch, asking excessive questions, playing too hard or too rough, being excited and not wanting to wait for a turn, having a difficult time staying quiet or interrupting someone used to be called typical two and three year old behavior. Remember the stages we once called it the terrible two’s and the trying threes. Now, for these very behaviors, modern psychiatry is labeling typical childhood behavior as mental illness and prescribing medication that is known to cause irreversible damage. Even more disturbing in 2005, Massachusetts General Hospital conducted an 8-week trial study that recruited children as young as four years old to be drugged and monitored, including having their blood drawn, to see if their tiny four-year-old bodies would tolerate a powerful psychotropic drug called Seroquel (clinicalTrials.gov). It is important that parents educate themselves about alternatives to helping their children. Part of our children’s behaviors should include education around diet and nutrition. If you think that yogurt or boxed juice is a healthy alternative for your children, think again. These items are filled with sugars. Sugar free cookies, though a great idea for our children, are infested with high carbohydrates. An alternative to eating sweets could be, sugar free Jell-O or pudding. Natural fruit juice with no added sugars can be a healthy as well. Try mixing sparkling mineral water and fruit juice. Diluting high-calorie fruit juices with water provides a refreshing beverage. Of course the best drink you can offer a child is a nice glass of water. There are many things a parent can do for their children besides putting them on mind altering drugs. Of course we should be limiting Limit TV and video games. If a child is watching more than a few hours of television a day, then the TV has become its role model, not the parent. Though a cheap babysitter, we must remember that TV is a weapon of mass distraction. Try to include physical movement in your child’s environment. When I was growing up children were both seen and heard. We rode our bikes in the streets, roller skated, played kickball in the streets, and the game red light green light was a pastime that I still engage in. So if you have time to watch TV, then you have time to take your child for a stimulating walk, or toss a ball around, or other physical activities that your child and you can enjoy. If you feel you don’t have time to monitor your child’s eating, or you have no time for physical activity with your child, or you have had a hard day and you are just too tired to listen gracefully and attentively to your child, then I suspect your child will become another statistic in the drugging of our children. They can be one of the 6,000,000 being administered drugs at this very moment. If this article makes you upset in anyway, then I hope it struck a nerve for you. I hope you realize that parents are responsible for their children. What they watch, what they eat, how you hear them, how you talk to them, how you love them, and how you drug them. My hope is you decide to make healthy choices for your children, after all, they are the ones that will someday be in charge of our world. For more information on this topic and others please visit: ADHD Videos