Teachers like the bottles because kids "play around too much" at the water fountain. They don't want the kids to have to stand in line, splash each other, and ask to be excused when they are thirsty. They can just sit in their desks like good little robots and drink their petrochemical laden water
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You have to remind adults who are working in the heat to hydrate because they get focused on what they're doing and forget. (We actually had people in my Army Reserve unit suffer severe heat injuries from failing to drink enough water, and it was a special concern during both Gulf Wars.) It doesn't surprise me that you have to remind children.
If you do, that's new. When I was a kid, when we needed water, we got thirsty, and we drank from a water-fountain to relieve our thirst; if we weren't in school, but out playing, and got thirsty, we'd just turn on somebody's garden hose and drink from it -- and maybe turn it onto ourselves in a nice spray, especially if there wasn't a swimming pool around. None of the pupils at my school ever had a problem with hydration, none ever got dehydrated. So if children now need to be rehydrated, somehow the species -- or at least the American subset of it -- has undergone a rather weird and counterproductive evolution, one that could kill them within days if there weren't any adults around to remind them to rehydrate.
Athletes are a different story. They're almost always over 15, usually over 17, and in training as well as when involved in whatever game they play, they work hard and, at the same time, get fully involved emotionally in the action. So their focus is on winning and on teammates rather than on what their bodies are
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Whatever the reason, we have a lot more kids who are ADD or high-functioning autistic these days, and as paradoxical as it may sound, the ADD kids can get really, really focused on things they're interested in. So, yeah. Hit the bottle, kids.
Do we have more ADD/ADHD children, or more school children put on drugs that dope them way down by staff who simply can't keep up with normal children? That's a question that's being asked by one hell of a lot of people. BTW, if you want to check what I said about dehydration and children, talk to a pediatrician, and to parents and others who have personal experience with children, not merely their own by others in their communities.
One other thing: ADD/ADHD is not a normal condition. When it's real, it's a sign of a child whose development and body are way off course from what they should be, due either to a genetic problem or some environmental impact or both. They tend not to live as long as those who don't have the condition, and don't have as many children who will in turn produce children who will . . . and so on ad infinitum. The fact that more and more children are turning up with such conditions means that one of these days, this country is going to suffer one hell of a population crash. If all the attention is on
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Athletes are a different story. They're almost always over 15, usually over 17, and in training as well as when involved in whatever game they play, they work hard and, at the same time, get fully involved emotionally in the action. So their focus is on winning and on teammates rather than on what their bodies are ( ... )
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One other thing: ADD/ADHD is not a normal condition. When it's real, it's a sign of a child whose development and body are way off course from what they should be, due either to a genetic problem or some environmental impact or both. They tend not to live as long as those who don't have the condition, and don't have as many children who will in turn produce children who will . . . and so on ad infinitum. The fact that more and more children are turning up with such conditions means that one of these days, this country is going to suffer one hell of a population crash. If all the attention is on ( ... )
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