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[quote=Anonymous]NP here and very sympathetic.  Agree it's insane to expect all the screen time as normal and a kid who has trouble with it as being abnormal somehow.

So it may resolve when normalcy comes back, OP.  However; the depression advice is good.  I think it's a toxic atmosphere that can take a normal kid and make them depressed.

Just in case it's more garden-variety malaise, you mentioned (I'll have to go back and look, but I think you mentioned) that there is nothing to look forward to or connect the grades with the reality.

In general  (non-Covid times), there is not much to connect grades to reality as "college" is vague, which one, etc.

So just an idea (that worked with my DD pre-covid) is to make it less abstract by offering a carrot.  For my DD, she always wanted to go to Hawaii (we are on the west coast) so I told her if she just held it together, we could go.  It provided motivation.

Look, if depression, it may not work, but while you figure out with mental health experts if it is or isn't, see if some kind of tailored carrot will help some.

I think in this very difficult situation, you throw everything you've got and see if anything sticks.[/quote]

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