Monday, December 13, 2010

The labling game


A volunteer guiding homeless children through a process
 whereby they address and resolve deep emotional
 issues at the cellular level, in a completely comfortable,
enjoyable and unthreatening manner.
 Labels 
Presently if a child’s dominance profile shows that he needs to move in order to take in new learning for instance, the social tendency is to hang an ADD or ADHD label on him and tranquilise him with a self prescribed dose of Ritalin, and be dammed with the short and long term adverse side affects that are inevitable.  If a child battles to read writing that flows from left to right across a page, or inverts letters and numbers, more often than not they are erroneously labelled as ‘dyslexic’ – and out comes the Ritalin again.  If a child does not show an aptitude for maths and science, but has an artistic bent, how often is he erroneously ‘streamed’ or redirected into a class, or school even, for children who are diminished in capacity and who ‘require special attention’ – and once again reach for the Ritalin?  Such a child is unjustly stigmatised for life; he actually in time comes to believe that dark fiction.  Hellooooo, this is not a ’blonde’ joke, this is what is really happening!

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