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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son has severe ADHD, and in school, took Adderall and had an IEP.  He's now in college but he never got into trouble for looking at stuff he shouldn't be looking at in MCPS K-12. At home, he would sit at the dining room table so we could monitor his screen as we walked past his chair behind him. He often needed redirection from watching stupid Youtube videos, but the alternative was a med booster in the afternoon, which messed with his sleep.

Some of it is parenting. Some of it is meds. Some of it is brain maturity. You're going to have to deal with this until he can self-regulate better.[/quote]

I really hate posts like this. "My kid didn't have this problem, so it must be your fault that your child does."

Great for you that your child's ADHD didn't cause him to impulsively misuse computers. But others with ADHD are different.[/quote]

Read. He did misuse them. He just never got into trouble for accessing inappropriate sites. We dealt with it. We survived. Screens aren’t going away any time soon, so you’re going to have to manage too.

Point: it is possible to power through this even with severe ADHD. Yes, it sucks. No, your kid doesn’t get a pass for bad behavior or poor grades (in case the conversation is going there).

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