- www.leanardsax.com/jh1.pdf
- www.leanardsax.com/jh2.pdf
- www.leanardsax.com/jh3.pdf
What causes boys to be adrift?
- Changes in Education
- schools are less friendly to boys because less competition, didactic learning, indoors instead of outdoors, and the acceleration of elementary curriculum.
- Sometimes the pathology is the school, not the child.
- Video games
- Increased diagnosis and medication of ADD
- ADD medications damage the motivational centers of the brain.
- Affluent children are most likely to be diagnosed
- The challenge is to determine WHY they are inattentive or hyperactive not that s/he is. Once you know why, the intervention should address that NOT the kid themselves. Intervention is only successful if you determine the why!
- Possible whys that can look like ADD:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Adjustment (divorce or moving)
- Abuse and neglects
- Gifts/bored
- Not motivated (Ask, "What's your favorite subject in school." If recess or lunch, they are not motived. )
- Sleep deprevation - if you don't wake up at the same time, you are sleep deprived. Sleeping in or taking naps = sleep deprivation.
- Medicalization of misbehavior
- If we don't medicate, then the burden is on the people.
- We are the only country on the planet that's first resort is medication.
- My medicating, we are shifting the responsibility away from kids/parents/teachers.
- Re-engage vs medicate
- Environmental Estrogens
- PLASTIC leeches estrogen into water and sauces.
- Female hormones lower testosterone which in turn lowers motivation.
- Enduring Cultures - What do they have in common?
- David Gilmore and Gilbert Herdt - anthropologists
- What do cultures have that last?
- Navajo and Orthodox Jews
- If you dropped someone from that culture from 1000 years ago into the culture today, they would be OK.
- Strong bods across generations - grandparents
- Community of women for girls and men for boys.
- They teach them what it means to be a man/woman.
- Single Sex Studies/learning
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