The effect of this so-called treatment is to absolve the adults on whom your child depends from responsibility. Once your child is labeled as defective and placed on drugs, then a STOP sign is placed on the need to figure out what might really be going on. Remember to Never Give Up Labeling and drugging your child is a clear signal that adults have given up. Perhaps the most important thing you can ever do for a young person is to demonstrate again and again and again that you will never give up on him or her. Another of the most important things for young people to know is that you care enough to keep thinking as well about them as you possibly can.
Mistakes are inevitable.
Remember to View Your Child Through the Eyes of Delight To see your child through the Eyes of Delight is the greatest gift in the world you can give to your child and to yourself. As with the feeling of urgency and pressure, viewing a child with anything other than delight really says more about the viewer than the child. They are still inherently delightful. Remember NOT to trust the thinking of anyone who sees your child through anything other than the eyes of delight. Your child is completely good and delightful.