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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Ban all screen time [/b]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]

Hate to say it but this is your problem.  I have one teenager with an Iphone addiction and we just have to take the phone away - and have both kids do homework where we can see the screens.  If I could parent all over again, I would have removed the T.V.s from the house and had only one computer for checking assignments or writing essays.  If you don't nip the screen time in the bud at the beginning it will become an overwhelming problem and the child never learns to focus well enough to do substantive work in school or the workplace later on in life.[/quote]

OP here.  I 100% agree with you and the PPs, and that's why we've taken screens away and hidden the remote controls. If I could dismantle our satellite dish and throw out the TVs, believe me, I would, but I think my DH's head would explode.  Plus, I do like watching certain things, like the Planet Earth and North America series', with my kids.  [/quote]

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