Turning normal behaviour into a clinical condition?

If your idea of normal behaviour for a 10-year-old is drinking a couple of litres of diet cola a day, staying glued to the TV or a video game until the small hours, and spending every spare minute listening to MP3s on a mobile phone or compulsively texting, your sense of normality is pretty badly deficient.

What to do about it is another matter. An effective and natural therapy, given a parent who thinks the above is normal, is to take the parent into a back room, shoot it, and dispose of the remains as hazardous chemical waste.