On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 21:57:36 -0500 in alt.childcare Frosty
<Clause39@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, intended to write something intelligible, but
instead wrote :
>My friend has a 7 year old boy with ADD and on Ritalin.
>But this little animal has one problem that destines him to a life in
>prison if something's not done.
>The kid has no ability to feel empathy.
>He physically hurts others and just doesn't understand why he gets in
>trouble for it.
>The other day I did a test with his father in the room.
>I held up a 3 x 5 card that had a photograph on one side and was blank
>on the other.
>I asked the little crumb cruncher to look at both sides of the card.
>I then held the blank side of the card in front of his face and asked
>him to describe the side of the card I was looking at. At first he
>didn't understand what I wanted. So I said, "Your side is blank. What
>does my side look like."
> He said it was blank.
>So I turned the card around so he could see the picture side.
>I then asked him to describe the side of the card that only I could
>see. He looked at me like I was stupid or something and stated what to
>him was the obvious: My side had a picture on it!
>His father was dumbstruck and grabbed the card from my hand and
>instructed his brat to be serious and tell him what was on the fathers
>side of the card while the kid was still looking at the picture, the
>kid was close to tears..."the picture daddy" he said.
>Dad showed him both sides of the card again, and retested his
>offspring. Same result.
>
>My question is this, my friend can't afford a shrink for the kid.
>Are there any behavior-modification techniques y'all know that might
>help this little SOB learn empathy?
>Dad has tried a belt, but junior just laughs about it.
>Rewards don't help; the kid hasn't a clue.
>Punishments don't work since he doesn't think he's doing anything
>wrong.
>
>Is the little rug rat destined to grow into an mean teenager and to
>rape some neighbor girl or worse?
>
>Thanx
I posted this to another newsgroup and was roundly chastised for
calling the little bugger bad names.
I want to reiterate in this one that I ASSUME you all to be adults and
also that that neither the kid nor his father have internet access (or
would have a clue about Usenet) and that daddy only "shows" the kids a
belt, and doesn't actually use it on him.
Also, the father has a case worker who is helping the family since the
mother died, and is responsible for the kid being on Ritalin.
This is areal post and the dad didn't, until I did this test which
I'd read about I think on the 'net, realize that his boy was so
unempathetic.
He WILL be taking to his case worker on Monday about this, but was
hoping someone online here would have some advice, or experience with
this sort of thing.
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