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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi OP, I sympathize with you—I have a DC with ADHD in 4th who I have to sit with every day to get him to do his homework. That said, he’s not in a very intense private school—I’m pretty sure a homework-heavy environment would not be a great fit for him. I keep telling him school gets better in college when you get to choose more of your classes!

Have you tried breaking up the assignments? Maybe doing some in the morning or at a different time?

Can you drop the reading part for now if it’s just meant for practice and can be any book she wants?

How much exercise, sleep is she getting? [/quote]

The homework packet has four pages and can be done at any point between Monday after school to Thursday evening, so we could try to do some in the morning but mornings are tough because we both work and need to leave the house by 7:20/7:30 am.

She is on a competitive swim team and practices twice a week and also does tennis and gymnastics after school on days she doesn’t swim, so she gets 45 -60 minutes of exercise after school M-Th in addition to gym 3-4x a week at school and recess. She also does a sport over the weekend and we go on walks over the weekend and she bikes. She is very active and a good athlete.

She has really struggled with sleep over the last few weeks. I think some of it is due to the transition (moving from a smaller campus with PK/K to a larger campus with older kids in first) and some of it is due to ruminating about what is happening socially at school. One of the girls in her grade has been bullying her since last year and it’s gotten more intense this year because she started to push back more. They are in separate classes, but have friends who overlap and recess and lunch are where this girl has continued to act aggressively towards her. She is well liked and very social; she has three very good friends and then a larger group of good acquaintances. She is also one of the youngest girls in her grade and less mature than most of the girls, which is a disadvantage socially. I generally see the disparity in maturity more at the start of the school year though. As the school goes on she adapts and things are easier. [/quote]

When we were initially going through this with our inattentive ADHD darling we discovered that they did better and were able to focus immediately after swimming.

It's a trial and error process.  [/quote]

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