I've been busy and neglecting this blog for a while but on the trip to New York (state) for a family function I came across this http://www.pedisedate.com/Home.html. It's a way to sedate your child. Yes let me say that again it's a way to drug your child with nitrous oxide! I especially like the triad of concepts at the top of the logo: Distraction, Comfort, Sedation. Sounds like the perfect date-rape process. For the record, IANAR (I Am Not A Rapist.)

Well nitrous oxide is non-addictive and, it does cause an enhanced sense of euphoria but, a majority of that feeling comes from near-asphyxiation. Don't bother with good parenting or discipline, just drug your child. What the hell ever happened to smacking your kid upside his head and making him behave? I am really feeling my age when i can now say things like "in my day we didn't have video game sedation helmets...."

We are living in a society that seeks to medicate everything under the sun. We can't medicate knowledge, wisdom or understanding. We can't medicate anyone to better understand what appropriate behavior is. These are the things that developing children will be missing out on when their behavior is altered medically. Furthermore, I see it tending to make drug addicts of them and others when they learn that the solution to all of their problems is found in chemicals.