The only thing more effective is regular exercise.
There was an excellent commentary in yesterday's Star Tribune by John Olson on parents turning to "mother's little helper" to help control their kids:
The rise in child medication is inversely proportional to the drop in groundings with no TV, and directly proportional to the rise in kids who have never played kickball without a cheering section.
A couple of weeks ago I was picking up a prescription at a Walgreen's and the woman next to me, who was getting some meds (probably Focusyn) for her son (who was around seven or eight), loudly commented, "Let's get you home and get these drugs into you before I need to start taking some."
She was greeted with an awkward silence by all of us around her but the idea that she would think that it was an appropriate thing to say in public was quite disturbing.
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