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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of speech problems, learned helpness and tantrums with this years group. Also hearing the word throughs them into a fit.  Lots of issues w/super short attention spans.[/quote]

I’m an FCPS SLP and every entering kindergarten class gets worse in terms of language developmental and attention.[b] It’s not COVID; it’s the screen-based childhood.[/b] The children were constantly on screens and their parents were too. All kinds of missing parent/child interactions has resulted in children with language delays and the inability to sustain attention on tasks at school. Add in overly permissive millennial parenting (“gentle parenting”) and we now have classrooms fill of children who are not quite ready. They have never been given a consequence by their parents and there is no follow through at home with behavior. I agree with the learned helplessness for sure. There are also children who immediately say “I’m bored” as soon as they are made to sit at a table and learn something new. They are used to the constant entertainment and endless swipe and scroll.

Parents of children under 5: put away your screens.[/quote]

+1 from a FCPS Special Education teacher. [/quote]
+1 MCPS occupational therapist...the lack of fine motor skills, or even just lack of familiarity with age-appropriate fine motor tasks, astounds me. Soo many kids are coming in having little or no experience ever using scissors, glue sticks, holding a writing utensil, turning pages in a book...it's crazy. Or the muscles in their hands/wrists are so underdeveloped due to lack of use that they become fatigued almost instantly.

Obviously there's always been kids who have disability related needs that impact their fine motor skills but these are NOT kids with IEPs. [/quote]

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