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[quote=Anonymous]What a crap article.  If I my keyboard weren't crapping out on me, I shine a light on the gaping holes and inconsistencies in her article.  How in the world did she ever write a thesis with such crappy writing?  How did she defend it?

I love how the author generalizes that all French parents are one way and all American parents are another.  And, she totally disregards the research that shows brain differences in people with ADHD and people without (full disclosure - we participate in ADHD research at NIH).  She also points out the French strictly deal with it on the 'social context problem'.   My ADHD kid is primarily inattentive, doesn't have social issues at all and his ADHD rarely impacts our home life as we have the excellent structure and consistency she talks about.  But, he is incapable of attending to classwork without medication.  How do the French deal with that?

Some quotable passages:

[quote]French parents believe that hearing the word "no" rescues children from the "tyranny of their own desires."

Spanking, when used judiciously, is not considered child abuse in France.
 
As a therapist who works with children, it makes perfect sense to me that French children don't need medications to control their behavior because they learn self-control early in their lives. The children grow up in families in which the rules are well-understood, and a clear family hierarchy is firmly in place[/quote].

That last one is a doozy, isn't it.  What she's basically saying is that it's the parents' fault their kids have an ADHD diagnosis because we failed to teach them self-control.  I'm SO glad she's not our therapist.  I can only iimagine how low my DS's self esteem would be because of her insistence that it's within his power to improve his executive functioning.  Fuck her and her opinion.  I wish she'd move to France.[/quote]

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