Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My son has severe ADHD and autism, and high school was the worse in terms of screen addiction. Our system was to have him do homework at the dining room table, where any one of us could walk past and glance at his screen. He had to be called out a million times a day.
Now he’s in college and mostly studying things that interest him. Of course his screen addiction gets in the way of everything else, like socializing and exercising… but he’s keeping it together. Frankly it’s a relief not to have to police him every day!
Ding!Ding!Ding! We have a poster who is willing to PARENT!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Perhaps I am a dinosaur, but is math homework no longer pen and paper?
This. Just get rid of your wifi OP.
If he needs internet for an assignment, he can use the school's wifi or public library.
Anonymous wrote:You say as typing on the internet
Anonymous wrote:Perhaps I am a dinosaur, but is math homework no longer pen and paper?
Anonymous wrote:Is it negatively impacting their grade? You can always opt out of chromebooks and your child will be given paper assignments only.
Anonymous wrote:My son has severe ADHD and autism, and high school was the worse in terms of screen addiction. Our system was to have him do homework at the dining room table, where any one of us could walk past and glance at his screen. He had to be called out a million times a day.
Now he’s in college and mostly studying things that interest him. Of course his screen addiction gets in the way of everything else, like socializing and exercising… but he’s keeping it together. Frankly it’s a relief not to have to police him every day!
Anonymous wrote:Is it negatively impacting their grade? You can always opt out of chromebooks and your child will be given paper assignments only.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Perhaps I am a dinosaur, but is math homework no longer pen and paper?
My junior is frequently required to watch videos as part of her AP Calculus homework.
Anonymous wrote: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.
Desmos, not Desmond.Anonymous wrote:Math is largely done in Google slides, Schoology, Mathspace, Desmond—-all on the computer!Anonymous wrote:Perhaps I am a dinosaur, but is math homework no longer pen and paper?
Math is largely done in Google slides, Schoology, Mathspace, Desmond—-all on the computer!Anonymous wrote:Perhaps I am a dinosaur, but is math homework no longer pen and paper?
Anonymous wrote:Also the more internet they watch the more they act like a jerk. Same thing doesn't happen when they're actually doing the math homework.