Even if it's not ADHD, a professional, and at least tell you that, and then provide coping strategies to help focus. And honestly it doesn't hurt for a teen to have someone who they can talk to who is not their parent/authority figure, and has their shit together.
Yes, this is true. Professional help is useful to teens (and all humans).
While true, it’s silly to suggest it in response to a problem occurring due to school laptops. It’s like reminding people that meditation and exercise are valuable.
It’s like when I’m menstruating and someone says “honestly it doesn’t hurt for a teen to have someone who they can talk to who is not their parent/authority figure.” Definitely true, but not relevant to the issue at hand. I think it comes from an intent to help and nurture, but it sounds like lalaland nonsense that just makes the conversation harder by spending time on something that doesn’t seem useful.
Of course, you don’t know who has availability to use healthcare to diagnose so it may help sometimes for people who truly have undiagnosed ADHD. Or for people who don’t know that it helps teen to be able to talk to people who have their shit together.
But I find that the problem is way more frequently that teens know how valuable it is to talk with people, but don’t have the resources or ability to find and use those people. So it’s like telling a homeless person how useful getting a job would be. Or a fat person that it’s possible to lose weight through diet and exercise. Yes, yes, let’s spend energy on actionable interventions.
Lack of focus and all that isn't new. It doesn't need a laptop to trigger it. Teens have always been like that. We've just started applying names to the problem instead of a belt.
> While true, it’s silly to suggest it in response to a problem occurring due to school laptops.
You don't know if the lack of attention is being caused by the laptop, since I assume there are other kids in the class also with laptops who are able to concentrate?
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