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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the posters with kids with ADHD- can they participate in time consuming extra curricular activities? My DS has ADHD and needs lots of time after school to just get the 2-3 hrs of work done.[/quote]

PP with the ADHD son again. He has one choir rehearsal a week and doesn't even practice at home (he does rehearse the last week before the concert). The other extra-curricular is more time-consuming, because it's his native language class and he has homework for it. Not too much in theory, but of course he takes a long time to do it. He should have physical activity, but hates it and "has no time for it". This is an ongoing struggle, because I refuse to sign him up for something when I see his coursework taking up time until 10pm. He needs a lot of sleep (suspected sleep apnea), so going to bed late is really bad for him. We force him to walk the dog, or do some crunches/lift weights at home, but not often enough.

There is no phone or social media involved. He knows not to do that. The biggest screentime waster is research for AP gov. Like many ADHD kids, he thinks he's doing the research, but actually he gets lost in the multiple websites he's supposed to look at, and it takes several hours instead of one hour. It's impossible for him to be more efficient once he's down the rabbit-hole, and it's hard for me to identify, because all I see is that he's on the right websites. Same thing when he's writing an essay for English class, and needs to look up quotes in books. He cannot seem to remember where he's read which story element, and needs to go through entire chapters before finding the right citation. It's infuriating to watch him do that, and eats up hours, literally.

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