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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ban all screen time and sign her up for various activities after school and for the summer.  If you can afford it, hire a great tutor to help her with her homework and get her enthusiastic about excelling if the interest isn't there.  This is what we did with a son who sounded a lot like your daughter.

The key, I think, is to ban all screen time.  I know how hard it is but I sure as hell don't want some stoner-gamer for a teenager.  We also found that with DS some of the more off-beat activities were more to his liking like cooking classes and fishing (and repairing antique reels).  [/quote]

OP here. Our kids do sound alike. The one thing that really got my DD excited earlier this year was when we attempted to do a kids baking challenge at home, like the one they were doing on the food network.  I've never seen her so excited, honestly, and then I kind of dropped the ball and didn't pursue it after we did it.  I actually don't find it hard to take away the screens, I find it very empowering.  that's how bad it had gotten in my house. The final straw was when DD got so excited to show me what she'd "accomplished" on dragonville, which was basically to add more random people ot her island. It wasn't hard to take away all screens at that point.  My DS was also abusing screentime, watching youtube videos of other people's minecraft stuff.  I put all screens (and remote controls) in a closet on the top shelf and I'm feeling pretty happy about that. :-) [/quote]

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