In some ways, this is a kindness, because it's at least considered inappropriate to relentlessly punish a kid for symptoms of a mental illness vs. "bad behavior." Yet it's another means of stressing that the kid (and not the environment or kid-environment mismatch) is the issue
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Imagine if we could have learned or practiced for a couple of hours starting at 6, taken a break to make dinner together, and then free-form discussed what we'd been working on while eating heck, parents could come too!
do y'all have coping suggestions?
(not diagnosed or anything, but I have similar-to-ADD-checklists problems)
From Beyond Measure by Vicki Abeles, quoting a sleep researcher: "Every single high school student I have ever measured in terms of their alertness is a walking zombie."pic.twitter.com/t6LMgBocoN
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My #1 regret in college is not sleeping more. I was going to study sessions that started at 1 AM (because my math-major crowd were night owls) but still waking up at 7 because that's what "good girls" do. I got suicidally depressed freshman year.
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Sometimes I hear people who teach teens wonder how they can be so intellectually lazy, how they can make such stupid mistakes on their problem sets. I *was* that kid sometimes, and I know it's not because I don't like learning in general. I was just sleepy. Really sleepy.
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AND what we rarely talk about: teenage girls starving! Like many other girls I spent my late teens starving myself, meaning my early morning class zombie state was combined with my brain getting not enough food for thought, literally! Girls and women, EAT - we need your brain!!
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especially fat and protein in the morning! good basis for the day!
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