Would You Enhance Your Child’s Academic Performance Through Drugs?
Posted by Sarah on September 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment
I’d like to think I would do everything in my power to let my child be as successful as she wants to be.
I’d like to think I wouldn’t let anything stop me from paving the way for her in order to make her passage into adulthood as uncomplicated as possible.
I’d like to think I would give her everything I never had and it would all work for the best.
Then I see people who have those parents! Parents who have clawed their way to success on their own only to raise lazy, irritating brats who think the world revolves around them.
I see educated successful people raise drug addicts, unemployed, lost children.
WHY? Is it the curse of doing too much for your children? If that’s the case, I don’t want to help my children. As much as that may kill me to see them struggle, that might be what is best for THEM.
How can we know that our good intentions and love will end up being someone’s crutch or excuse for not pushing hard enough! What if we make them push TOO HARD??
Apparently many parents feel pushing your children to work harder, be smarter and push more is better for them. Prescription drug use is on the rise these days. Check out this article about the uses of neurologically enhancing drugs from the New Yorker Magazine.
And it’s not the type of drugs you are thinking. Weed, coke and heroin are the least of our problems. Their obvious abuse is easier to spot in most circumstances.
The real problem today lies with prescription drugs if you ask me. The housewife who pops uppers and downers daily in order to function, men who abuse Viagra, anti-depressants and a ton more. All thanks to easy access pharmacies online that are more than happy to send you hundreds of little pills to ease all your pains. Viagra, Prozac, ……
We have become a society defendant on drugs for everything. Even our athletes, our present day gladiators, are using performance enhancing drugs to better their game.
So why shouldn’t your child? If it means getting into Harvard or getting accepted into a prestigious firm, what would be the harm?
Apparently, more people than you might imagine feel this way.
What do you think? Would you encourage your child to be more competitive in order to succeed? Would you go back in life and take these pills yourself if you could?
Tell us! We want to know!
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