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: In the 1960s, what did we have? We had maybe depression.
Now 2013, with all these diseases and conditions and mental behaviors that we've created and
where was ADHD when we were kids? It was shut up and do your homework, that's
what it was. Then when you're hyper, go outside and dig
a hole, why? Because...alright, you go outside and dig a whole and you come back in and you're
exhausted. I mean we're talking about there's so many
factors -- diet, nutrition could not have be its poorest, information overload, we're
taking more information in one 24 hour period than medieval times took in their entire lifetime.
We're taking that kind of information in 24 hours and that's proven.
Kids are playing iPods and iPads and iPhones and they're just constantly taking stimulation
and they're high in sugar so they're completely not balanced and they're going through these
cycles. Kids are real *** and they're irritating
because they have that type of a diet and the problem with that is the parents today
aren't coping the same way that they were 10, 15, 20 years ago because parents lives
are busier. Matter of fact I just read a statistic that
showed the average parent, the average full time working parent spends 19 minutes per
day, face to face, one on one time with their child on average.
The average person logs on to Facebook 21 ½ minutes a day.
People spend more time on Facebook than do with their children.
That's messed up and you start wondering why these children need attention and then the
only attention that they get is negative, corrective attention so then their behavior
starts to mimic that and they start jumping. Me, me, me, me, me...how's Spike? How's Spike?
How's Spike? Come on Spike, come on Spike, Come on Spike.
Stop, enough and then the parents can't cope with it, so what's the answer? Drug the child.
We start giving these types of medication and then all of a sudden they start becoming
desensitized and then when they start to become desensitized, they start becoming out of touch
with reality and when they start becoming out of touch with the reality they start having
certain behaviors that are antisocial behaviors. All of a sudden, it's proven that and there's
a statistic I read. You may be able to back me up on this because you know exactly what
article I'm talking about with the ADHD medications and the anti-depression medicines, it was
like 67% reported suicidal behavior. The reality is there's something with mental
instability that we're not addressing and the problem is that we're creating a lot of
these conditions for 1 and 2, it's still not okay.
Everyone's afraid; nobody wants to be mentally wrong.
There's this stigma that goes with mental problems that we're afraid to acknowledge
and the kids in school they don't want to see the psychiatric nurse or the mental hospital
or any of those things because there's a negative connotation that comes with that.
I think if you want to solve some of that issue, you got to make it mandatory.
Every child should go once in every semester go see the psychiatric nurse and every student
has to go through that program for psychic evaluation and so on and so forth so that
we can help recognize that. Truth be told, I have 3 young children in
the school system. I'm not afraid of guns, I'm afraid of all
the medicated kids. There's so, so many; the percentage is ridiculously
high. That's what I'm afraid of.
I'm afraid of that antisocial behavior that they are losing touch of the reality and people
say it's the video game. Sure, it's the video game; be comfortable
killing but there's no difference in video games to reality and some of the video games
are causing that and sort of the guns are causing that.
It's the whole combination of where that behavior comes from and where it begins to develop
from and how it stems in the attention of the parent and the parent are not taking that
same responsibility and it goes through even more than that and then the parents who do
take responsibility are taking it the wrong way; they're protecting their children.
Like I said this story last year, about 5 or 6 years ago there was in Texas, there was
a child who was messing around on the school bus and got kicked off the bus because he
was endangering the lives of the driver and the other kids.
He was throwing things at the driver so he got kicked off the bus and the parents sue
the school board for endangering their child by kicking him off the bus.
What would have happened if I would have done that when I was a kid 30 years ago?
My dad, I would have sat down and what was the first question he would have asked?
What the hell did you do? He wouldn't yell at the bus driver and the
school board and the problem is we're teaching our kids how not to win so everybody gets
a participation rhythm, everyone gets first place and we never teach them how to win,
how to lose and guess what? We cuddle them and we protect them and then
we put them in this world and we say "it's okay" and they'll do this "don't say that
to my kid. You can't say that" and then the soccer mom who is a crazy *** at the soccer
field is going "play my kid!" Guess what, life in real life is losers and
winners and unfortunately there are more losers than people can account for and then what
ends up happening is as we begin to develop these children, we don't teach them how to
emotionally get that spectrum. You can't spank your kids, you can't beat
your kids, guess what, I spank my kids and I love them so much and they get the spectrum
of every part of their emotions and that's what makes them special gifted children because
when you go one direction, guess what, people say "you can't do this and you can't be hard
on them and you can't have the expectation and you can't raise your voice at them and
all of those things because they can't handle it."
Not true; the people who are on Jerry Springer with mental problems, they're not because
they were beat too much. They're there because they weren't loved,
period. That's what the human spirit cannot handle,
it needs love. That's the only thing it needs.
Everything else it can take because that's the payoff that it's going for and what happens
is as people are going through this society and we protect, remember we can't do this,
don't do that, don't bully. I get it. There was bullying when we grew
up and we dealt with it and we worked through it and it was hard.
Is it harder now? Yeah maybe, maybe different. Every generation had its issue.
Guess what, there's bullying in the workplace, think of all the places you work from, work
with. There's an *** in every group.
That's just the way life is and it teach that we have to learn how to be winners and losers
and how to accept that, how to function and when we protect our children they can't function
and all of the sudden that kid ask the girl to the dance and she says "no you're a loser"
and he's never been able to handle rejection because he's been cuddled his whole entire
life. He snaps.
He's on the medication; he has no emotional ability and stability in order to handle this
situation. He hasn't had a conversation with an adult
figure in his life in probably 4 years that talk about emotions and talk about things
at the dinner table and say "it's okay to feel hurt. It's okay to feel frustrated. It's
okay to do all of these things and how you're going to work through that" and actually get
some mentorship from somebody who is actually responsible and has the care to be able to
listen to them. When that begins to happen, we begin to be
able to function like a human being on a full spectrum of human emotions.