Screen Time & COVID-19: How to Support Teens with ADHD
Connecting with others is essential, and that is especially true for teens with ADHD during this unprecedented COVID-19 quarantine. Most teens with ADHD, however, spend too much time on electronics, so it is necessary—now more than ever—for parents to engage them in collaborative discussions that lay out expectations.
Screen Time Limits
You can use this time—when most of the rules about screen-time limits and appropriate hours for waking and sleeping have gone out the window—to help your teenager practice self-regulation. Soon your teen will be out on his own, with no parental limits. Learning to coauthor their own limits will help them in the not-too-distant college environment.
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