Mama Bear's Rant

I'm sorry, but I feel the need to vent, or rant, or bitch, or whatever you want to call what I'm about to do.  As I briefly mentioned in a previous post, Hambone was diagnosed with ADHD approximately one year ago. While I'm not going to go into the specifics (just because I'm about to walk out the door and I don't have time) about it in this post, I do want to share something.

I follow a facebook page called "Easy to Love but Hard to Raise". It's more or less a support group for parents who have children with ADHD, autism, or other similar issues, to come together and either vent or bounce ideas off each other.

Recently, someone posted something about parents being "lazy" when choosing to medicate their children instead of "rolling their sleeves up" and dealing with their issues.

If I were a cartoon character my head would be bright red with steam exploding from it right now. I try, and I mean I really try, to keep my opinions to myself when on facebook. I don't always succeed, but I do try! I obviously didn't succeed today, because I posted this reply:

First of all shame on the people who feel the need to judge others without actually having to walk in that person's shoes. You just never fully know exactly what a family is going through unless you are that family. Everyone's situation is different and who are you to judge them? Just because you medicate your child, it doesn't mean that you stop parenting that child any less - or become what people may view as a lazy parent. Medication is not just "the easy route". For some children, it's the only route and yet for others it's not. In my experience, when my son started taking medication all of his good, sweet, charming, lovable qualities started shining through all the difficult behavior we were CONSTANTLY battling. The medication is very effective and beneficial for not only his emotional well being, but also for his educational being. That being said we still face challenges on a daily basis and we still parent him just as we did before we chose the medication route. We are by no means "lazy" parents. I'm confident that we made the right choice in medicating him as I can see a HUGE difference in not only his well being, but it has also made a positive impact on our entire family. Don't judge me for providing my child with medication that he so desperately needs, because I certainly don't judge you for choosing not to medicate yours.

And like Forest Gump would say "That's all I'm going to say about that".

Now I'm hoping a blast of the cold air in my face will make this Mama Bear's blood stop boiling!

Until next time - don't judge others and live, laugh , love - xoxo