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The Boy Who Burned Too Brightly

Written on August 9, 2022.

This book is an excellent resource for parents, teachers, school counselors and anyone that works with children. It is an allegorical tale that paints an excellent picture of what it’s like for children diagnosed with ADD, ADHD and other psychiatric...

The Hyperactivity Hoax : How To Stop Drugging Your Child And Find Real Medical Help

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Written on August 8, 2022.

This book is written by neuropsychiatrist Dr. Sydney Walker, who is willing and determined to find the root of hyperactive behavior in children, instead of rushing to place psychiatric labels on them. With the rampant diagnoses of children with ADD,...

Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves but Can’t Read, Write, Or Add

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Written on August 7, 2022.

In this book, author Charles J. Sykes addresses what he considers to be the problem with the high pedestal on which self-esteem has been placed in the education system, which sacrifices children’s ability to read, write, add, subtract and compute....

Unraveling the ADD/ADHD Fiasco

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Written on July 15, 2022.

This is another groundbreaking book from psychologist Dr. David B. Stein, which was published in 2001. Unraveling the ADD/ADHD Fiasco is, like other books written by Dr. Stein, based on his highly successful Cargivers’ Skill Program, which provides...

The Diseasing of America’s Children: Exposing the ADHD Fiasco and Empowering Parents to Take Back Control

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Written on June 24, 2022.

This book, written by psychologist John Rosemond and pediatrician Dr. Bose Ravenel, exposes the fallacy behind the creation of these behavioral and developmental “diseases” such as ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and early-onset...

Teaching the Restless: One School’s Remarkable No-Ritalin Approach to Helping Children Learn and Succeed

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Written on June 17, 2022.

With over 6 million children in the United States being labeled with psychiatric disorders and prescribed medications for said labels, this book makes a strong case against such practices. Teaching the Restless: One School’s Remarkable No-Ritalin...

The Exhausted School: Bending the Bars of Traditional Education

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Written on June 7, 2022.

Another genius work from John Taylor Gatto, making a strong case for educational liberty. The book is a collection of thirteen essays written by award-winning teachers and their students, which were presented at the 1993 National Grassroots Speakout...

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, 25th Anniversary Edition

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Written on March 23, 2022.

With over 100 years of mandatory schooling behind us now, we have seen the progression of issues such as illiteracy and learning disabilities in our children. Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, which is John Taylor Gatto’s...

Tag: children’s mental health

The Boy Who Burned Too Brightly

The Hyperactivity Hoax : How To Stop Drugging Your Child And Find Real Medical Help

Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves but Can’t Read, Write, Or Add

Unraveling the ADD/ADHD Fiasco

The Diseasing of America’s Children: Exposing the ADHD Fiasco and Empowering Parents to Take Back Control

Teaching the Restless: One School’s Remarkable No-Ritalin Approach to Helping Children Learn and Succeed

The Exhausted School: Bending the Bars of Traditional Education

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