I think routines and planning help people who have concentration problems.

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Denise, TM fees are $375 for a child under 18. How much does the medication you give your child cost you per year? I'm a TM practicer and I can't begin to tell you how amazing it is. It's definitely worth the money because it's for life.

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Bizarre: everyone assumes I suggested transcendental meditation (TM), when I merely suggested meditation. In case people don't already know, most food is genetically modified (GM), and these foods cause disease and a whole host of mental and physical problems. Also, most food packaging contain nanotechnology, and this also causes disease and other problems. Morgellons disease is one such problem, it's highly infectious, it's extremely debilitating, and about 38% of the people reported to have it are autistic. People should learn all about morgellons, nanotech, and genetically engineered foods. We need to protect our bodies from these dangerous pollutants.

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That would be wonderful if everyone could afford it. I've checked into TM here and it's hugely expensive!! I don't have thousands of dollars. How do I get my son into TM without selling our house, moving into a tent and living on bread and water?

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Kids also need vitamin D and magnesium. These are both lacking in most people. Magnesium baths (epsom salt baths) a few times a week, and either lots of sunshine or vit D supplements. Kids need to get the toxic metals, yeasts, fungi, and parasites out of their bodies, too. We all have them. If kids are not eating certified organic, they're eating pesticides, dioxins, pcbs, genetically engineered and nanotech poisons.

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The sad thing is that so many of these children really don't have ADHD they really do not because I have taught so many children in my home that parents were told that but all they really wanted was possitive attention by the parents.
I remember when I was really young I couldn't keep proper attention because my father was ill from a stroke and my mother had to take care of him 24/7 and have an outside job and was very hard for me to concentrate and do anything well.
A lot of these children come from broken homes and their world is constantly upside down when they come home and nobody seems to notice them so they will do anything for attention.
Another thing that nobody knew in my days that chocolate was very bad for children with me it made me angry but when I didn't eat it I was fine but as I said in my days this was not known. So a lot of these problems could very well be food alergies.
But for me chocolate was the tricker and we had enough of that around the house.
As I said I taught a lot of these children that I was informed they were in th at way but they were fine with me because the child had my full attention and they performed all of their studies with me just fine because there was no tension in my home as there was in their own and now there are at very least fourty (40) children in each class and in some states there are several languages being spoken which adds more to confusion of some children.

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Parents have to stop pharmacological parenting--ie--medicating kids. those meds do no good for these kids. they lead to other meds, organ failure, dependence, and a complete loss of self. Kids need exercise, REAL organic food, no fake colors, adequate omega 3's, love, support, water, and patience. We have to stop medicating our kids. Do your research on these meds and kids--honest unbiased research, as many fine people recommended here---and see if you really want to put those chemicals into your kids. Namaste'

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My son also has ADHD and for years I refused to give him the medicine and settled with behavior therapy and modifications. Time-out didn't work, red-light-green-light didn't work, grounding him didn't work, taking things away didn't work. He ignored it all. I refuse to hit my son or give him to a system that can't take care of the children they already have in foster care. I made sure my son had a network of people monitoring him and who would communicate with each other and myself. You're not suppose to just give someone a pill and forget about it. If you are the parent, be responsible and follow through, don't be lazy and critical. Pills aren't magical solutions. My son is still my son, only at a normal speed and he thinks before he acts now.

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Thanks for this great article. It is nice to see that there are other solutions to ADHD besides medication. This new research on Transcendental Meditation seems very encouraging.

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It gets worse: the FDA is set to approve the use of electroshock machines as "safe," without any studies required. Electroshock is being used on children with autism, retardation, and the phoney-baloney "mental illnesses." We live in a police state, and it's getting ever more powerful. We're all being brain-damaged by genetically engineered foods and nanoparticles. Yes, they cause brain and organ damage. "Morgellons disease," for instance, is a gmo/nanobio invasion of our bodies. We need to fight back, en masse. Tell everyone you know about morgellons. Educate-yourself.org We are deliberately being "culled," our bodies and brains damaged, so that we cannot fight back in the future. I fear for the next generation.

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