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[quote=Anonymous]OP - I'm reading through all of these posts. There are some non negotiables in our house for DS:

1. He needs to be involved in at least one physical extracurricular (not every season), but at least one per year.

2. He needs to be involved in one creative/intellectual pursuit- for him it's piano, but I would accept an art class, math club, cooking class, anything.

I'm mentioning this because you may need to "take the bull by the horns" so to speak. Insist upon some involvement in "life" that starts out as structured. I agree with the previous observations that your daughter was too wrapped up in screens and is now at loose ends.

I think many parents face this is a different format- imagine the kid whose every moment is structured. A long break hits and that kid (*my kid* is that kid when coming down from a busy semester) is suddenly a pain in the neck because they don't know what to do with that time. It takes some time to adjust to the reality of entertaining themselves.

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