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"An epidemic of bad parenting? Has something drastic happened to parenting skills in recent years? Has a sudden outbreak of parental irresponsibility taken hold of the nation, precipitating a rise in childhood obesity and other problems over which parents were once firmly in control? In the vivid imagination of food marketers, the rise in childhood obesity can only be explained by bad parenting. Protecting children in other ways Most people recognize that powerful business forces sometimes need to be constrained by government intervention." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"In 1987, he published SELF-PARENTING: The Complete Guide to Your Inner Conversations, creating the principles and practice of consciously parenting your Inner Child as an Inner Parent. During this period, he was the featured guest of many radio, news, and television interviews, including CNN; becoming the first chiropractor to create and establish a breakthrough consciousness growth system endorsed and recommended by prominent psychological teachers such as Louise Hay, John Bradshaw, and Ken Keyes, Jr." - John K. Pollard, The Digestive Awareness Diet: You Are HOW You Eat (Get the book.)

"Their parents, Ted and Jessica, had begun to suspect that their sons' wild behavior was not a product of shortcomings in their parenting skills. The boys were both diagnosed with ADD/ADHD. For a year before receiving the official diagnosis, Mom and Dad struggled to get the boys involved in team sports. First, they had Oliver signed up for club soccer, but within two months he had been kicked off the team for fighting with not only opposing team members but also his own teammates in both practice and during games." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"That may be the result of our upbringing. Some parenting styles create "vulnerable children." These parents are not "bad" or psychologically disturbed, nor are their children disturbed. They are the kind of parents who, at the end of the day when they are tucking their child in, are inclined to the thought, "Thank God Johnny made it today." They infect their child with a subtle, subliminal sense of impending doom. Such a pessimistic view of the world sometimes seems to run in families. Parents raise children to see the world as they do." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Positivity should always have a place in your parenting methods when you are raising a child with behavioral issues, but remember that another important element that must be part of your child's life is structure. A behavioral therapy that focuses on the pragmatic ways of dealing with ADD/ADHD has grown out of this concept. It's known as cognitive behavioral therapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy You already know that of the many things that can complicate recovery from ADD/ADHD, one of the most troubling has nothing to do with brain chemistry or genetics at all." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Because the list of symptoms or behaviors does not by itself tell us that there is anything wrong with the child, and because children are so responsive to their environments, and to parenting and teaching, the list of ADHD symptoms cannot be viewed as a disorder. In my experience, so-called ADHD symptoms, when genuinely troublesome, usually reflect inadequate disciplinary training at home. Often, parents have lost confidence in their moral authority or are trying to impose confusing and contradictory rules on the child." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Many parents also find parenting classes very useful and they are often offered free or at little charge by city or county family programs. Tranquilizer/Sleeping Pills Tranquilizers (antianxiety drugs) and sleeping medications are listed in appendix A. Although all are potentially very hazardous to withdraw from, Xanax and Halcion are among the worst. I have also seen people have grave difficulty withdrawing from Ativan and Klonopin. All of the drugs in this group can cause seizures and catastrophic levels of anxiety and insomnia during withdrawal." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "At the clinic he was prescribed multiple psychiatric drugs but no counseling or parenting guidance was provided. When Buddy's behavior worsened on the cocktail of medications, the clinic insisted on hospitalizing him. In the long-term residential facility, Risperdal was added to Buddy's drug regimen and he began deteriorating into a child his parents could barely recognize. He was terrified by his surroundings and stupefied by the drugs. He talked vaguely about being sexually abused. Mr. and Mrs. Little felt in danger of losing their son forever." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Needleman and Landrigan, as "One of the Ten Best parenting Books of the Year." Although these authors are leading pediatricians and experts on toxic chemicals, they showed no awareness of the toxic and carcinogenic risks of personal care products, except for in a brief reference to lead in hair dyes. In 2002, my co-author of the Safe Shopper's Bible, David Steinman, purchased two dozen products for babies and sent them to a laboratory to have them tested for the presence of two carcinogens, 1,4-dioxane and ethylene oxide." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"At first Rex just sat in the dayroom clutching his pad and stared off into space, or slept, or paced, but after a while that got boring and he inevitably started to take notice of the numerous activities at the clinic such as the daily groups held on medications, substance abuse, education about mental illness, parenting, and so on. For the first time, Rex ventured into the room where all these meetings were held, and over time he became one of the most consistent attendees, all the while holding his pad. Over time he responded in particular to the group on substance abuse." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Done often enough over a number of days, it becomes an unhealthy pattern in which the "chore" aspect of parenting becomes the main focus, while the joys are forgotten and lost. Here again, your significant other needs to be your greatest source of support, and this can't happen if you each are secretly resentful or hurt. Open up communication lines and keep talking until you feel that everything is out in the open and you understand each other. A career is time-consuming and important, and you don't have to give it up entirely for the sake of your family or your relationship or marriage." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Many of the symptoms that children are medicated for are more appropriately dealt with by treating the root causes, such as childhood abuse and other traumas, lack of appropriate two-family parenting, lack of supervision, lack of role models, exposure to violence in the schools, and the failure of social service agencies to appropriately provide for these children. Diet and Behavior The topic of children and nutrition is a huge one that is beyond the scope of this book. I urge you to seek out credible nutritional information if you have a child, particularly one who has behavior problems." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Society should aim to improve children's behavior through families and the community, he said, rather than use the medical system to hand out pills. parenting is a skill that can be taught, he said, and the state could help by having more social workers visit troubled families at home. While psychiatric medications might be okay for some adults, Dr. Lobas said, most children need help in ways that don't involve pills. "Kids are not small adults," he said. "Kids need to be supported and loved and they'll turn out okay." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"For instance, the most popular Prussian parenting manuals in the 19th century stressed that children should be absolutely obedient, and that the most minor infraction should be punished with beating. Beating children several times a day was not uncommon, and was not considered unusual or cruel. It was simply the accepted German nineteenth century paradigm of good parenting. But it produced the generations who fought the Franco-Prussian war (successfully for the Germans), and then World Wars I and II (unsuccessfully for the Germans)." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"Even if you were too young to reject this parenting and feeding, what makes you still think that you have to accept this historical fact as the final statement about you and your body? Use your Harriet Dialogues to talk to the ghosts within you. Give yourself back the ultimate authority over your life. Recognize that you're keeping this up with your unexpressed anger and blame, and that only you are being hurt. If you have real grievances with your parents, then either decide to air them out, or let go of them. Either way is better than eating yourself into poor health." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"They assured Lynne, though, that she shouldn't blame herself, because poor parenting had recently been ruled out as a cause. For many years, they said, doctors had thought that kids became autistic because their mothers were emotionally frigid-'refrigerator mothers," in the psychiatric lexicon. In these more sophisticated times, they said, it had become apparent that autism was simply genetic, and therefore inevitable for a tiny percentage of children." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Another useful book on breastfeeding, Sheila Kippley's Breastfeeding and Natural Child Spacing: How Ecological Breastfeeding Spaces Babies, might interest mothers who've adopted the "attachment parenting" approach. And last but not least, in her wonderful memoir of motherhood, Having Faith, Sandra Steingraber explores both sides of this complicated issue: whether it's safer in the long term to breastfeed or formula-feed her newborn. Better Bottles The popularity of clear, hard-plastic baby bottles made from polycarbonate has skyrocketed in the last decade." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Whatever your level of parenting experience, if you have one kid or nine, you can use the information in these pages to secure a better future for your children. With the necessary tools, you can protect your children from environmental toxins. Throughout this book, I'll be examining how all sorts of different lifestyle choices—about nutrition, physical fitness, even vaccinations—may affect the development of your child." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The pediatrician's medical notes indicated no interest in the potential causes of this behavior either in the stresses of divorce or in inadequate parenting practices. As often occurs in divorces, especially when the husband wants to avoid a fight in court, Mrs. Thompson was awarded sole custody. Knowing that her former husband would probably disapprove of diagnosing and medicating their son, she did not invite him into the treatment process. Reggie was referred to a specialist who diagnosed ADHD, a label that's not supposed to be applied to children under age six." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Contemporary stressors, like worrying about paying the mortgage, doing the jobs of three people, dealing with an unhappy marriage, or grappling with ongoing parenting issues, tend to be more long-term. A life stressor can be considered chronic if it persists for three or more months. Instead of pumping out more adrenaline, the adrenal glands respond to chronic stress by secreting more Cortisol. Because chronic stress is ongoing, high Cortisol levels do not subside until the stress is removed or the adrenal glands exhausted. Over time, elevated Cortisol levels can wreak havoc on your body." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"Helping your child to discover these passions can be a rewarding journey and an unforgettable parenting adventure. Here are a few tips to get you started. • Begin the dialogue with your child sometime before you start taking the steps to restrict or cut down on their gaming or television-watching time. Find a time when conversation would be most natural, such as on a long car ride or at the dinner table. You can start by mentioning an activity that you've always wanted to do, and never got the opportunity to try "You know," you can say, "when I was your age, I wanted more than anything to_." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Again, mama is reading up on the latest information about parenting and is hesitant to take her son to a psychiatrist, knowing that about eight million children are currently taking anti-depressant drugs. Not wanting to risk that battle, she politely declines the teacher's request. If she is lucky, the teacher will not insist. If she is unlucky, the school might threaten to remove the child from her custody should she refuse a psychiatric evaluation." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Has something drastic happened to parenting skills in recent years? Has a sudden outbreak of parental irresponsibility taken hold of the nation, precipitating a rise in childhood obesity and other problems over which parents were once firmly in control? In the vivid imagination of food marketers, the rise in childhood obesity can only be explained by bad parenting. Protecting children in other ways Most people recognize that powerful business forces sometimes need to be constrained by government intervention." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"Problems in parenting or parenting styles may make ADHD better or worse, but these do not cause the disorder. ADHD is clearly a brain-based disorder. Currently research is under way to better define the areas and pathways that are involved."25 Huh? Where does one begin to wade through this psycho-babble yah, yah? In a nutshell, CHADD is as clueless as the NIH, the APA and the pharmaceutical companies when it comes to the cause(s) of ADHD." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"It's sort of like parenting: reading guides to child rearing may give us some good ideas and help us avoid some common problems, but ultimately everyone's parenting style is shaped by their children. Similarly, the right community spaces are the ones that reflect and respect their surroundings. Every good neighborhood is at its best when it is most like itself. There are some general strategies that tend to work. Meet the neighbors. Promote good, compact development. People naturally gravitate toward certain locations and atmospheres, so allow established spaces to form around organic hubs." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Problems in parenting or parenting styles may make ADHD better or worse, but these do not cause the disorder. ADHD is clearly a brain-based disorder. Currently research is under way to better define the areas and pathways that are involved."25 Huh? Where does one begin to wade through this psycho-babble yah, yah? In a nutshell, CHADD is as clueless as the NIH, the APA and the pharmaceutical companies when it comes to the cause(s) of ADHD." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"Vetrano's Natural Hygiene parenting and teaching skills to bring us the "ABCDs" from their upcoming book The New, Natural, Hygienic Care of Children. List A is taken from the chapter entitled "For Mothers and Other Adults Who Feed Kids!" by Dr. Tosca and endorsed by Dr. Vetrano. A: Feeding Mothers, Infants and Children Hygienically 1. The mother's care of herself and her prenatal care of the child must follow the ten energy enhancers strictly if she is to thrive and if the fetus is to develop in a normal, healthy fashion." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"It requires paying primary attention to the physical connection with the person you're with, and is part of what prenatal psychologists call "attachment parenting." The same is true for the healing encounter. The client in front of the doctor doesn't want to rattle off a list of symptoms for evaluation, and is not assessing the doctor by how fast she comes up with a prescriptive solution. The client is suffering, and needs understanding and empathy. Tuning in to people in order to understand their afflictions cannot be done at the same pace as drag racing." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"Further evidence of our insane health care policies (and perhaps an indicator of parenting as well) is how we treat kids diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). According to data from the CDC, 4.4 million U.S. children between the ages of 4 and 17 are currently receiving medication for this disorder. This condition is caused in part by an overload of processed foods laced with food colorings, preservatives, flavor enhancers, high fructose syrups, synthetic sweeteners and a variety of other chemical compounds." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

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