Nancy Young wrote:

> "Roberta" > wrote
>
> > It's funny - at first I thought "oh my goodness NO I wouldn't give my kids
> > coffee!" After I thought for a second, I give em tea...so why not...well,
> > other than the fact that we have 3 adults that drink a lot of coffee - I
> > don't really need more coffee drinkers in this house lol
>
> A son of a friend of mine was diagnosed ADD quite a few years
> ago, one thing she was told to help him was to give him coffee.
> Struck me as a strange thing. I guess if it helped him to focus, why
> not?
>

I remember quite a few kids who would be diagnosed ADD these days, but back then
the prescription was a spanking.
:-)