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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand your frustration with the internet, but as someone who had similar problems, long before the internet (much less Youtube) was available to teens, the problem may be more related to your teen as the distractee than whatever is distracting them.

When I was a teen, I’d be distracted by whatever book I was reading, or by reading ahead in textbooks, or by entries that caught my eye looking something up in the encyclopedia or dictionary.  When a kid ends up reading ahead in their grammar book or gets lost in the dictionary, you have to accept that you’re going to be hard-pressed to find things less distracting.

As an adult, I’ve come to believe that I have ADHD.  Perhaps early diagnosis could have made my life a lot easier.  Usually, there seems to be all the time in the world, until I blink and I’m out of time.  I’ve noticed that a lot of times I procrastinate about something I’m uncomfortable doing.  I also tend to be a perfectionist, and that certainly didn’t help.  I think I always felt I could do more on an assignment, so if I started early, it would just drag on forever. I’d unconsciously avoid a task (despite wanting to do better and feeling guilty for not being more productive), until I knew I absolutely had to get something done because I had no choice - at which point, I’d do the assignment in a panic-induced frenzy, turning in whatever I could manage to produce.

I’m 53 now and still haven’t started my taxes despite resolving last year to do better when I panicked to turn in my taxes on the last day of the automatic extension that I had requested in a panic on tax day.  I just realized that I should probably be working on them, rather than this post, but they just seemed so far off they hadn’t registered on my radar.[/quote]

Mine can get distracted by books, a view out the window, throwing paper like basketballs into the trash can, but those things don't make them act like a jerk like YouTube does. [/quote]

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