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[quote=Anonymous]She sounds like a bright child whose ADHD has finally caught up with her. My son has severe ADHD and his forgetfulness and tendency to get lost in preferred activities was apparent from the start of elementary school, but your child's situation is much more common.

If you want to explore the ADHD part and get her treated and possibly medicated, you need to act fast to get an evaluation from one of the area's reputable psychologists who do this. The best ones have waiting lists.

You can also hire an executive functioning coach, but they're very expensive, and you can do the same job yourself: sit her down, explain her struggles to control her time on activities she likes, and her struggles with remembering to hand in assignments and remember tests. Review her use of a planner (paper or digital). Remind her to check her planner daily, and/or the teachers' pages on her school platform, if her school system reliably uses one to post assignments and deadlines. Check every day that she does these things. Help her manage her electronics. Electronics stay downstairs at night. If she needs to work on her laptop and she's the kind to watch videos on another tab or chat online, there's very little you can do for that, unless you want to breathe down her neck all the time, which isn't a great way to segue into college life.

Essentially there is no way to do any of this without both her buy-in, and a brain that isn't constantly distracted by untreated ADHD! She sounds as if she's willing, but her brain is working against her, so that's why I'm suggesting an evaluation and treatment. This isn't so much a question of college admissions, since she can get into a no-name college with poor grades - it's a question of how functional she'll be once IN college, without your help. [/quote]

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