Reaction to the "Cutting Edge" Programme
Last week's Best of the web
Let off steam?
Last week's Best of the web featured the
work of child behaviour expert, Warwick Dyer, who argued that
most children diagnosed with conditions such as Attention Deficit
Hyperactive Disorder needed discipline not drugs to control their
behaviour.
This week there is more common sense in the same vein from
Professor Priscilla Alderson, of London University's Institute of
Education. She claims that "children diagnosed with behavioural
disorders may simply need to be allowed to "let off steam"... She
said many children's problems were due to bad parenting, and
psychologists looking to "make a quick buck".
Children were 'cooped-up' at home, she said, and not given the
opportunity to run off their extra energy in parks and
playgrounds."
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