Reaction to the "Cutting Edge" Programme
Last week's Best of the web
Let off steam?
Last week's Best of the web featured the work of child behaviour expert, Warwick Dyer, who argued that most children diagnosed with conditions such as Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder needed discipline not drugs to control their behaviour.
This week there is more common sense in the same vein from Professor Priscilla Alderson, of London University's Institute of Education. She claims that "children diagnosed with behavioural disorders may simply need to be allowed to "let off steam"... She said many children's problems were due to bad parenting, and psychologists looking to "make a quick buck".
Children were 'cooped-up' at home, she said, and not given the opportunity to run off their extra energy in parks and playgrounds."
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