Screen time after school 5th grade.

[MamasTryn]

Just curious about everyone else's after school screen time struggles and what has worked. Do you have a strick no screens during the school week?

[STEM_Dad]

Hello MamasTryn , and welcome to the forum!

I can't be much help, because my kids go to their mom's house after school. (She's a stay at home mom, and I'm at work until 5pm or later. Plus, I have poor self control regarding screen time, so it's hard for me to draw that line for my kids, besides for disciplinary measures.)

I suggest also posting on CHADD's ADHD Parents Together forum on this site. I'm sure that someone there will have tried it.

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[MamasTryn in reply to STEM_Dad]

Thank you for the feed back. I'm new to this forum/site and thought I was in the right place. I'll repost.

[STEM_Dad in reply to MamasTryn]

You're in the right place, in that we have a good community of folks supporting one another.

There are several of us on both CHADD forums. Since I'm the only one in my family with an ADHD diagnosis, and only suspect that my kids have it (though milder than me), I hang out here more.

Do you have ADHD yourself? If not diagnosed, do you have any traits of experience similar struggles with people who have it? I think my own parents have ADHD traits, but are likely subclinical (not enough traits to be diagnosed).

[Mamamichl in reply to MamasTryn]

You’re not “in the wrong place”, especially if you have adhd too. We can relate to keeping boundaries being hard for parents who have it as well.

[LisethHIS]

Hi MamasTryn,

Thank you for contacting CHADD National Resource Center on ADHD. Here is a great article on screen time with kids with ADHD. chadd.org/wp-content/upload... Here is also a podcast that you listen on your free time to get tips and hear the benefits of technology.

If you have further questions, please let us know. We are here to help!

Liseth

Health Information Specialist

CHADD’s National Resource Center on ADHD chadd.org

[Mamamichl]

some people have success with no screen time. Not us. We are a gamer home, but also keep in mind what you expect out of kid, you should follow yourself. They don’t see it as fair, even if we are using it for work/academics. My kid was even asking yesterday if I can use my work laptop for games 🤣. They just don’t get it.

For us, we have her phone (4th grade) with only 2 hours for certain apps and all turn off at 8 except meditation and reading apps. On weekends it’s the same, and when she has used up her time, she can ask for more. We use those opportunities to get work done to earn more time 😉 this strategy also helps us not become the bad guys who are taking them off the electronics, since doing so tends to trigger them more. It’s a boundary that we regulate. She has been asking for more regulated time 🤔 (which we may add over summer, if she can show responsibility).

[Mamamichl]

I just saw this posted in the same email your post was chadd.org/adhd-news/adhd-ne...