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I'm a girl. I loved Barbie.

Whose fault is that, the peers?

If I inferred it, it certainly was not my intention and by your reply I think you know what I was getting at. However, the same dullards will once again pound the doors down next Christmas to buy the latest

I wasn't talking about teens.

As a person with ADHD I've _tried_ "meditation and relaxation techniques". Doesn't work. Too much noise inside the head. "Quiet it" you say. HOW?

I agree with you there.

So how does that 90K compare with other occupations in the area?

My thinking is its the parents again...

Am glad.

Dave

How long a period did you meditate and what was the duration of each session? What did you meditate on and which technique did you use? Meditation takes committment and practice over the long haul. It doesn't work after several times. Calming the mind has been achieved by Buddhists for thousands of years. If you told a Tibetan they had ADHD they'd laugh hysterically with wonder at what you were talking about. The mind also can quiet when people don't have over stimulation, which I described in my first post.

A police officer makes about 70,000 a electronics solderer makes about

You can't buy a house on Long Island or anywhere downstate for that matter without a minimum of a 20 percent down payment in cash. Even then, they will opt for you to take a mortgage up to 110 percent of the loan to help with the almost 15,000 in closing fees. It's insane. Add that to a car payment, 3.50 for a gallon of gas to sit in a parking lot to and from work for hours in many cases and there, you have not much left for anything.

Jangchub wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

i'm a girl. i hated dolls, Barbie in particular. but that irrelevant :) i agree that we played outside most of the time, but then, so does my kid. i tend to shock a lot of parents. my son is 7. he's quite "busy", as in scatterbrained & all over the place. running around outside, building forts & climbing trees are great outlets for all that energy. i booted him out the door to play alone at around 18 months old (he was walking at 6 months & climbing trees at 13 months). i gave him verbal boundries of where he was allowed to play, so that he would always be visible from a window, & let him go. pampering kids isn't doing them a favor. last summer he 'earned' the privilege of going to play at the pond by himself. this summer he wants to learn whittling & carving, so he's working on more self-control (oh my god! you aren't thinking of giving a 7 year old a knife, are you?!).

of course not. many parents are either spineless, or trying to relive their childhoods vicariously through their kids. neither is good for the kids. of course, sitting inside playing mindless video games or futzing on myspace isn't healthy either, especially if it's unlimited or unsupervised. BTW, peer influence isn't really a big thing under age 10 or so, & hopefully by then the parents have instilled *some* values into a kid...

it's only nominally for the kids, as i said... lee

As long as I could sit still without developing an urge to kill something.

Whatever was before me at the time and when I was doing it there wasn't discussion of "techniques", you just did it. At least those around me were doing it. I was struggling to stay sane.

Perhaps no Tibetan suffers from ADHD. There is a small body of evidence that suggests that it is hereditary.

You say that "calming the mind has been achieved by Buddhists for thousands of years". While I am certain that that is true for _some_ Buddhists are you saying that all Buddhists everywhere have achieved it?

I'm sorry, but saying that some technique is going to work for a person with a neurological disorder because it has worked for others who do not have that disorder is kind of pointless.

With regard to "over stimulation", I lived out in the sticks and my folks didn't even have a radio, so where did I get this "overstimulation"?

You really don't seem to know much about ADHD.

So it sounds like it was pretty good pay.