Raising boys

Since when was jumping off slides considered an extreme case of ADHD?

I thought that was healthy boyhood behavior. Goodness, I'm surprised all little boys aren't drugged if that is considered extreme.

My brother is eight years younger than me and we've been blessed (?) with a record of his growth - yearly casts due to his adventures. Whether it was climbing trees or trying to go down a fireman pole without hands (oops), Geoff managed to make frequent trips to the emergency room.

Once again, from "Future Men", on faith and boys: "Say a boy breaks a chair because he was jumping on it from the bunk bed. Unbelief sees the cost of replacing the chair. Faith sees aggressiveness and courage, both of which obviously need to be directed and disciplined."

And, from the cover: "When Theodore Roosevelt taught Sunday school for a time, a boy showed up one Sunday with a black eye. He admitted he had been fighting and on a Sunday too! He told the future president that a bigger boy ahd been pinching his sister, so he fought him. TR told him that he had done perfectly right and gave him a dollar. The stodgy vestrymen thought this was a bit much, and so they let their exuberant Sunday school teacher go. What a loss. Unbelief cannot look past surfaces. Unbelief squashes, faith teaches. Faith takes a boy aside and tells him that this part of what he did was good, while that other part of what he did got in the way. 'And this is how to do it better next time.'"