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Title: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: suckmymuscle on February 21, 2012, 10:15:31 PM
  99.9999% of conspiracy theories are illogical bullshit. You want a conspiracy theory that is real? Here you have it: a 1960's ad for Ritalin, catecholaminergic, non-amine dopamine re-uptake inhibitor, that turns rebellious kids into obedient robots with no personalities of their own. By blocking the reuptake of dopamine in the pre-frontal cortex, it sustains focus and decreases cerebral "noise" thus making a child hypnotized by whatever is in front of him. Truly scary shit...

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: Nomad on February 21, 2012, 10:57:46 PM
One thing I do not understand is how easy it is to obtain mood altering drugs in America. Brain is very complex organ, yet after two decades of research scientists think they have it all figured out and it is as simple as taking a pill and drinking some water? Bullshit, and making all these drugs available like candy is not helping anyone in the long term. It is like functional alcoholism, sure ti works but it will get you sooner or later.
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: Max_Rep on February 21, 2012, 11:24:09 PM
  99.9999% of conspiracy theories are illogical bullshit. You want a conspiracy theory that is real? Here you have it: a 1960's ad for Ritalin, catecholaminergic, non-amine dopamine re-uptake inhibitor, that turns rebellious kids into obedient robots with no personalities of their own. By blocking the reuptake of dopamine in the pre-frontal cortex, it sustains focus and decreases cerebral "noise" thus making a child hypnotized by whatever is in front of him. Truly scary shit...

SUCKMYMUSCLE

100% true... I've been saying it for about 5 years.
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: Hugo Chavez on February 21, 2012, 11:26:06 PM
  99.9999% of conspiracy theories are illogical bullshit. You want a conspiracy theory that is real? Here you have it: a 1960's ad for Ritalin, catecholaminergic, non-amine dopamine re-uptake inhibitor, that turns rebellious kids into obedient robots with no personalities of their own. By blocking the reuptake of dopamine in the pre-frontal cortex, it sustains focus and decreases cerebral "noise" thus making a child hypnotized by whatever is in front of him. Truly scary shit...

SUCKMYMUSCLE
X3 true...
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: mass243 on February 22, 2012, 12:35:50 AM


Sad but obvious.

And there seems to be members on GB who are proud that kids, especially boys and young men in US don't anymore behave like real boys and men behave naturally.   :-\

Sickening drug-infested community.
Good to know there are few who are aware of the chemical-pumping and realize it's disastrous effects on population.
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: gib on February 22, 2012, 12:40:13 AM
One of the biggest American drug dealers, apart from the pharmaceutical companies, is Starbucks.
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: The_Hammer on February 22, 2012, 01:04:18 AM
I think they use Adderall now.

It's effective in treating ADD.

I had a friend in elementary school who was wild and uncontrollable and as a result was a terrible student.  This behavior continued into middle school until he was diagnosed with ADD freshman year of high school.  He was put on a regimen of Adderall and he went from a failing student to graduating with honors and attended Princeton University.  He's now Director of Operations at a large hospital in Arizona and makes $300K/year.

The drugs that is really hurting many Americans is Oxycodone.
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: Tapeworm on February 22, 2012, 01:13:10 AM
Fuck 'em.  Kids are too small to do anything about it anyway.  Dope the little bastards up.
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: suckmymuscle on February 22, 2012, 02:02:13 AM
I think they use Adderall now.

It's effective in treating ADD.

I had a friend in elementary school who was wild and uncontrollable and as a result was a terrible student.  This behavior continued into middle school until he was diagnosed with ADD freshman year of high school.  He was put on a regimen of Adderall and he went from a failing student to graduating with honors and attended Princeton University.  He's now Director of Operations at a large hospital in Arizona and makes $300K/year.

The drugs that is really hurting many Americans is Oxycodone.

  ADD is a fabrication. How do you define it? How do you diagnose it? Does a kid who can't sit still for seven hours starring at the same thing have ADD? What about a kid who can't sit still for 10 hours? 15 hours? Where do you draw the line?

  ADD is a social "disease". It only "appeared" in the 20th century after kids were required to sit still for hours on end starring at a black board. It didn't exist before the Industrial Revolution or even in the 19th century, when kids were allowed to roam free and play instead of forced scholarship.

  It is not "abnormal" for a kid to pay attention to multiple things at once and want to run around. That is normal Human infant and child behavior. What is abnormal is turning kids into little intellectualls with Asperger's Syndrome who stay hypnotized for hours in a chair paying attention to one thing. That is what is abnormal.

  The ability to focus increases with age, and even in an adult it is not normal to remain single-minded for hours. Adults take breaks from reading for a reason. Now, an adult who cannot focus for even a few minutes truly has something wrong with him. But a child who can't sit still for 7 hours? No, there is nothing wrong with that child.

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: _bruce_ on February 22, 2012, 02:04:15 AM
Fuck 'em.  Kids are too small to do anything about it anyway.  Dope the little bastards up.

 :D

but the little fags grow into big ones.
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: pedro01 on February 22, 2012, 02:42:53 AM
A doctor tried to get my son on Ritalin.

He has attention issues or so they said. Others said Autism. At 3 years old, he couldn't talk. You'd ask him what he wanted to do and all he'd say was "spiderman, spiderman, spiderman". You'd put a CD on 3 times and on the 4th time he's sing along every damn song almost word perfect.

I shopped around many, many doctors listening to their nonsense until I found someone who's explanations and recommendations made sense.

What a psychologist eventually found was that he had some language development problems that will be with him forever but which he can work his way around. He spent 1.5 years in a special school which took him from "spiderman, spiderman, spiderman" to being able to go into the regular school system. He's not the top of the class but he's not the bottom either. To me, this was nothing short of a miracle.

As school gets harder as he gets older, we have to intervene and teach him the strategies he needs to wrap his head around the way a regular classroom works. With that he goes in and gets along.

All the psych tests show he has above average cognitive abilities but he's not wired the same way other kids are and he doesn't respond as well as them to the teaching methods in school. I have to help out a lot with his school work and retention skills/strategies.

He's almost 10. He was in the special school at 4, regular school into his 5th year.

Doctors - well they just wanted to write him off or give him drugs. As it is, he's on no medication, very happy, very charming and doing just fine.

Fuck these people who want them on drugs. They just aren't all the same.
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: Dr Dutch on February 22, 2012, 02:47:31 AM
AD(H)D is a real neuropsychiatrical disease. But the diagnosis must be made carefully. I've seen people with this condition change overnight from neurotic to normal, not robots, but much better fuctioning and happier people. If used correctly, it's not unhealthy and not addictive.

Time released version is even better, no rebound.

says Dr Dutch
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: mass243 on February 22, 2012, 03:02:15 AM

I read horrible news last week from free media.

It said Americans want for example sorrow to be categorized as a mental disorder.


Did you read that, Mr. Dutch ? It was some american psychiatric organization or something that came up with this proposal.
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: Dr Dutch on February 22, 2012, 03:14:11 AM
I read it too. It's of course all inspired by the pharmaceutical industry...
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: wes on February 22, 2012, 03:14:27 AM
LOL @ ADD..................... back in my day they would have just gave you a swift kick in the ass,and told you to straighten the fuck up and fly right !
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: Marlo Stanfield on February 22, 2012, 03:46:13 AM
i cant embed this,

but this is a pretty good drug free treatment of ADD

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103440/drug-free-treatment

Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: DBX on February 22, 2012, 04:04:34 AM
another reason for me to hate my parents...
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: liberty on February 22, 2012, 04:10:52 AM
Wes is right......you can't hand out an ass whoopin when your kid deserves it so now they just drug em'
When I was a kid there was a price to pay if you got out of line.....kids have no fear anymore and do what they want.
By neighbors 10 year old told him if he laid a hand on him he'd tell his guidance councilor....kid should have just said to his father'checkmate'
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: Parker on February 22, 2012, 04:13:12 AM
I read horrible news last week from free media.

It said Americans want for example sorrow to be categorized as a mental disorder.


Did you read that, Mr. Dutch ? It was some american psychiatric organization or something that came up with this proposal.
"Im feeling down today. My dog died."

doctor: "Well, here is a dug to make you happy!"

you:"Ok!"
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: devilsmile on February 22, 2012, 04:21:48 AM
 99.9999% of conspiracy theories are illogical bullshit. You want a conspiracy theory that is real? Here you have it: a 1960's ad for Ritalin, catecholaminergic, non-amine dopamine re-uptake inhibitor, that turns rebellious kids into obedient robots with no personalities of their own. By blocking the reuptake of dopamine in the pre-frontal cortex, it sustains focus and decreases cerebral "noise" thus making a child hypnotized by whatever is in front of him. Truly scary shit...

SUCKMYMUSCLE

That's not a conspiracy, correct. And it's not just in america it's in every single country on this planet now almost.

Agenda21 = global and international foods are all chemically treated with various toxins, poisons and even metals before sold to the consumers, FACT!

Depopulation = goes hand in hand with agenda21 with dumbing down the population to accept blatant drug use, violence, lack of empathy and world wars, FACT!

this is all going on, and has been going on for a long time and this time the world leaders will just come in plain sight... I could say why but none of you would believe it, but it's not relevant, what's important is that you all know what's going on. No conspiracys.

People need to wake up more, we still have people who didn't even know that there's fluoride in our waters.

They don't add chemicals into our foods and water because it's neccessary to kill the bacteria  ::), you can boil the water to kill the bacteria/worms, and you can also cook the food  ::). They add the chemicals because they want to decline birth rates and peoples overall health and ultimately decrease worlds population to 500 million, along with huge wars ofcourse.

Look it up, it's all in the fucking open, it's not a conspiracy... fags.
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: mass243 on February 22, 2012, 04:29:49 AM

People need to wake up more, we still have people who didn't even know that there's fluoride in our waters.




Bro, No fluoride in pipe water in Finland  ::)

I think it was tested in Kuopio many many years ago but abandoned. This as far as I know... but I'm pretty sure of this.
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: mass243 on February 22, 2012, 04:37:30 AM
"Im feeling down today. My dog died."

doctor: "Well, here is a dug to make you happy!"

you:"Ok!"


yea  ;D

That's crazy. Feeling down occasionally for various reasons is built-in in us humans. That's perfectly natural.
Now someone making even a proposal to count it as a disorder.... wtf, haha so weird it's funny actually
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: devilsmile on February 22, 2012, 04:39:29 AM

Bro, No fluoride in pipe water in Finland  ::)

I think it was tested in Kuopio many many years ago but abandoned. This as far as I know... but I'm pretty sure of this.

same shit in finland, bro, the snake worshipers have their roots deep in every western country, guaranteed :D. Fluoride isn't the only chemical in the pipe waters either.

katainen for example has admitted to take part in the bilderberg groups meetings every now and then along with other finnish leaders.
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: DK II on February 22, 2012, 04:53:05 AM
 ADD is a fabrication. How do you define it? How do you diagnose it? Does a kid who can't sit still for seven hours starring at the same thing have ADD? What about a kid who can't sit still for 10 hours? 15 hours? Where do you draw the line?

  ADD is a social "disease". It only "appeared" in the 20th century after kids were required to sit still for hours on end starring at a black board. It didn't exist before the Industrial Revolution or even in the 19th century, when kids were allowed to roam free and play instead of forced scholarship.

  It is not "abnormal" for a kid to pay attention to multiple things at once and want to run around. That is normal Human infant and child behavior. What is abnormal is turning kids into little intellectualls with Asperger's Syndrome who stay hypnotized for hours in a chair paying attention to one thing. That is what is abnormal.

  The ability to focus increases with age, and even in an adult it is not normal to remain single-minded for hours. Adults take breaks from reading for a reason. Now, an adult who cannot focus for even a few minutes truly has something wrong with him. But a child who can't sit still for 7 hours? No, there is nothing wrong with that child.

SUCKMYMUSCLE


100% spot on.

ADD is fuckign social cancer, a way for the women to put the male down. And you will all see what you have from it when you have grown-ups in a few years that didn't have a normal brain development because they were drugged through all their childhood.

Fucking scary, should be a crime against humanity to drug your kids.
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: DK II on February 22, 2012, 04:55:22 AM
A doctor tried to get my son on Ritalin.

He has attention issues or so they said. Others said Autism. At 3 years old, he couldn't talk. You'd ask him what he wanted to do and all he'd say was "spiderman, spiderman, spiderman". You'd put a CD on 3 times and on the 4th time he's sing along every damn song almost word perfect.

I shopped around many, many doctors listening to their nonsense until I found someone who's explanations and recommendations made sense.

What a psychologist eventually found was that he had some language development problems that will be with him forever but which he can work his way around. He spent 1.5 years in a special school which took him from "spiderman, spiderman, spiderman" to being able to go into the regular school system. He's not the top of the class but he's not the bottom either. To me, this was nothing short of a miracle.

As school gets harder as he gets older, we have to intervene and teach him the strategies he needs to wrap his head around the way a regular classroom works. With that he goes in and gets along.

All the psych tests show he has above average cognitive abilities but he's not wired the same way other kids are and he doesn't respond as well as them to the teaching methods in school. I have to help out a lot with his school work and retention skills/strategies.

He's almost 10. He was in the special school at 4, regular school into his 5th year.

Doctors - well they just wanted to write him off or give him drugs. As it is, he's on no medication, very happy, very charming and doing just fine.

Fuck these people who want them on drugs. They just aren't all the same.


FUCK society and fuck schools for telling you how your kid is "Normal" or "not normal".

Who's to decide, your son might be a genius in some field one day, because of his special ability of high cognitivity. It's just trying to fit him into a box that makes him different.
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: Swede! on February 22, 2012, 05:40:57 AM
AD(H)D is a real neuropsychiatrical disease. But the diagnosis must be made carefully. I've seen people with this condition change overnight from neurotic to normal, not robots, but much better fuctioning and happier people. If used correctly, it's not unhealthy and not addictive.

Time released version is even better, no rebound.

says Dr Dutch

Sometimes it's that.

Sometimes Its lazy american parents.
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: gib on February 22, 2012, 05:49:34 AM
I think they use Adderall now.

It's effective in treating ADD.

I had a friend in elementary school who was wild and uncontrollable and as a result was a terrible student.  This behavior continued into middle school until he was diagnosed with ADD freshman year of high school.  He was put on a regimen of Adderall and he went from a failing student to graduating with honors and attended Princeton University.  He's now Director of Operations at a large hospital in Arizona and makes $300K/year.


Bullshit - the "ADD" was probably because he was highly intelligent. He would have excellent in any case. In most boys, ADD is a normal behaviour, that phases out as he ages. The problem is a schooling system that expects kids to sit at desks, when they are at an age biologically to be running around like crazy. So its the system, not the kid, that is the problem.
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: SilverSpoon on February 22, 2012, 08:53:25 AM
A lot of these kids are suffering from the effects of a terrible diet deficient in amino acids.

And/or are ingesting dyes that they are allergic to.

I grew up with a kid who had horrible reactions to red dye.  Normal, nice kid.  Give him a candycane?  A spider monkey that would try to rip your face off.

I believe it is now referred to as the Feingold diet.

http://www.feingold.org/overview.php
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: SilverSpoon on February 22, 2012, 08:57:01 AM
Dr. Priscilla Slagle believes that many of the adult mental health problems can be cured through diet.

http://www.thewayup.com/

You can download her book for free on this site.

The amino acids she has available on her site are the finest that are made, and are the same company that Rheo Blair used to have his products manufactured.
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: maxkane69 on February 22, 2012, 11:38:39 AM
  99.9999% of conspiracy theories are illogical bullshit. You want a conspiracy theory that is real? Here you have it: a 1960's ad for Ritalin, catecholaminergic, non-amine dopamine re-uptake inhibitor, that turns rebellious kids into obedient robots with no personalities of their own. By blocking the reuptake of dopamine in the pre-frontal cortex, it sustains focus and decreases cerebral "noise" thus making a child hypnotized by whatever is in front of him. Truly scary shit...

SUCKMYMUSCLE

Doctor who prescribe drugs like that to kids are worst than street drug dealer just like white collar Bankers are worst than Bank robbers!
The world is so FUCK-UP nowdays because the Governement and Law do not make illegal this kind of practice from doctors and Bankers who fuck-up kids health and our livewood but instead reward them!
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: DK II on February 22, 2012, 02:13:03 PM
Doctor who prescribe drugs like that to kids are worst than street drug dealer just like white collar Bankers are worst than Bank robbers!
The world is so FUCK-UP nowdays because the Governement and Law do not make illegal this kind of practice from doctors and Bankers who fuck-up kids health and our livewood but instead reward them!


Well, it has been like this always....

For example, in Europe if you don't pay your taxes, if it's 10.000 - 100.000 Euro you did not pay, you will pay a huge fine or maybe even go to jail, if you "missed" to pay 20.000.000 Euros, they will drop the charges if you just pay the money.

Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: Samourai Pizzacat on February 22, 2012, 02:40:23 PM
Keep in mind that a diagnosis is neccesary in order to receive social security. That means that regularly a psychiatrist, psychologist will label a person that falls short of a DSM IV category, but that can clearly benefit from treatment (whether that be behavioural therapy, drugs, ECT, etc). Without that label you receive no compensation for treatment.

Many disorders didn't exist pre-19/20th century in terms of medical description, or were chucked in groups as 'hysterical' or 'insane'. That doesn't mean they're merely figments of 20th century society. There were times when certain diagnoses like ADD were bandied about like ping pong balls.

Much more worrysome are the attempts of the pharmaceutical lobby to stretch the inclusion criteria for disorders, in order to create a greater market for their drugs.
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: DK II on February 22, 2012, 02:44:59 PM
Keep in mind that a diagnosis is neccesary in order to receive social security. That means that regularly a psychiatrist, psychologist will label a person that falls short of a DSM IV category, but that can clearly benefit from treatment (whether that be behavioural therapy, drugs, ECT, etc). Without that label you receive no compensation for treatment.

Many disorders didn't exist pre-19/20th century in terms of medical description, or were chucked in groups as 'hysterical' or 'insane'. That doesn't mean they're merely figments of 20th century society. There were times when certain diagnoses like ADD were bandied about like ping pong balls.

Much more worrysome are the attempts of the pharmaceutical lobby to stretch the inclusion criteria for disorders, in order to create a greater market for their drugs.

pharma companies = terrorists.

They push their shit on the people, without remorse, and the governments are ALL on their pay lists, just too bad they only push what brings the most money and not what would eventually help people.

Why can you get Ritalin for your kid VERY easily but steroids, amphetamines and other "drugs" are outlawed?
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: Parker on February 22, 2012, 02:48:37 PM
Keep in mind that a diagnosis is neccesary in order to receive social security. That means that regularly a psychiatrist, psychologist will label a person that falls short of a DSM IV category, but that can clearly benefit from treatment (whether that be behavioural therapy, drugs, ECT, etc). Without that label you receive no compensation for treatment.

Many disorders didn't exist pre-19/20th century in terms of medical description, or were chucked in groups as 'hysterical' or 'insane'. That doesn't mean they're merely figments of 20th century society. There were times when certain diagnoses like ADD were bandied about like ping pong balls.

Much more worrysome are the attempts of the pharmaceutical lobby to stretch the inclusion criteria for disorders, in order to create a greater market for their drugs.

Well, I don't think in the late 19th century, early 20th century that they had all these chemicals, dyes, and hormones in our food. Nevermind the populace who experimented with all sorts of mind altering drugs. Compound that with a society that started to reward mediocrity.
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: Samourai Pizzacat on February 22, 2012, 03:02:51 PM
Well, I don't think in the late 19th century, early 20th century that they had all these chemicals, dyes, and hormones in our food. Nevermind the populace who experimented with all sorts of mind altering drugs. Compound that with a society that started to reward mediocrity.

You're dead wrong here, there were many chemicals in high dosages in the human environment especially since the start of the industrial revolution. Arsenic, lead, and later radioactive elements like radium (in toothpaste and hair cream!) to name a few. Pollution in England's big cities was ghastly in the late 18th and 19th century.

But we're discussing 2 different topics here:
-causal link between pollutants and psychological disorders

and

-overdiagnosing and stretching of inclusion criteria (partially under pressure by the pharm industry)

  
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: The Abdominal Snoman on February 22, 2012, 11:56:55 PM
Putting kids on drugs early on in life only set them up for looking for more powerful drugs when they become adults. 
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: The Abdominal Snoman on February 22, 2012, 11:59:12 PM
Bullshit - the "ADD" was probably because he was highly intelligent. He would have excellent in any case. In most boys, ADD is a normal behaviour, that phases out as he ages. The problem is a schooling system that expects kids to sit at desks, when they are at an age biologically to be running around like crazy. So its the system, not the kid, that is the problem.

Good post. They want every kid to be the same. A robot in the system they created. And the ones who really stand out and excel will be put at the front of the class. The ones who fall way behind will be put on mind altering drugs.
Title: Re: The Druging Of American Kids.
Post by: SF1900 on February 23, 2012, 12:05:53 AM
A doctor tried to get my son on Ritalin.

He has attention issues or so they said. Others said Autism. At 3 years old, he couldn't talk. You'd ask him what he wanted to do and all he'd say was "spiderman, spiderman, spiderman". You'd put a CD on 3 times and on the 4th time he's sing along every damn song almost word perfect.

I shopped around many, many doctors listening to their nonsense until I found someone who's explanations and recommendations made sense.

What a psychologist eventually found was that he had some language development problems that will be with him forever but which he can work his way around. He spent 1.5 years in a special school which took him from "spiderman, spiderman, spiderman" to being able to go into the regular school system. He's not the top of the class but he's not the bottom either. To me, this was nothing short of a miracle.

As school gets harder as he gets older, we have to intervene and teach him the strategies he needs to wrap his head around the way a regular classroom works. With that he goes in and gets along.

All the psych tests show he has above average cognitive abilities but he's not wired the same way other kids are and he doesn't respond as well as them to the teaching methods in school. I have to help out a lot with his school work and retention skills/strategies.

He's almost 10. He was in the special school at 4, regular school into his 5th year.

Doctors - well they just wanted to write him off or give him drugs. As it is, he's on no medication, very happy, very charming and doing just fine.

Fuck these people who want them on drugs. They just aren't all the same.

You're implicitly referring to a term called, "Goodness of Fit." This term basically means is there a Good Fit between the child's temperament/personality/behavior and the environment. That is, does the environment make the appropriate accommodations to fit the child's needs. In schools, the answer is no! Children have to adapt to the school, instead of the school adapting to the kids needs. Thus, the kid is forced to learn, think and act a certain way that is contradictory to his or her true nature. This does not create a "Goodness of Fit" between the child and the environment. In fact, its a pretty poor Fit. The child will inevitably wind up with difficulties, because they are being told to act opposite of who they are.

Better explained by Thomas and Chess:

"Stated briefly, there is a goodness of fit when the person's temperament and other characteristics such as motivation and levels of intellectual and other abilities, are adequate to master the successive demands, expectations, and opportunities of the environment.

This formulation stems from the conviction that normal or pathologic psychologic development does not depend on temperament alone. Rather, it is the nature of the interaction between temperament and the individual's other characteristics with specific features of the environment which provides the basic dynamic influence for the process of development.

If there is a goodness of fit between child and environment, the foundation for a healthy self-concept and stable self-esteem is laid down. If there is a poorness of fit, a negative, denigrated self-evaluation begins to crystalize. If, in latter childhood or even in adult life, a poorness of fit can be altered, such as by the emergence of new positive capacities or a favorable change in the environment, then a negative self-image may be transformed into a positive one.