Questions tagged [attention]
Questions relating to a child's ability to maintain attention Or the attention seeking behaviors. The challenges of increasing children's focus and attention span. Many problems derive from attention seeking behavior and a child seeking attention.
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What are age appropriate projects for 5-year-old interested in electronics?
I have a 5-year-old boy who's very into electronics and Ghostbusters in particular. So far, I've had pretty good luck with snap circuits.
We started to build a homemade Ghostbuster Proton Pack but it ...
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Creating focus and thought processes in young boys
My boys (aged 7 and 9) have had issues with self-reminder and focus. For almost two years now, we have had regular habitual processes to help create the same habitual behaviour in them, but we are ...
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What to do with a first grader who cannot sit still in school?
A first grader (7 1/2 years old) has trouble sitting still. Often, he stands up when everyone else is sitting, squirms around, but is not verbally disruptive. At home, he similarly has little ...
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How to help a teen that wants to learn productive skills, but has entertainment addiction?
I have a son who has ADHD. He is very passionate and loves to work really hard at anything he does, but he has serious trouble focusing on anything which involves a non-trivial amount of (perceived) ...
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4 year-old son has a strong interest in numbers, how can I help him stay focused?
My son was performing a Christmas song at church yesterday. Initially he was performing well but when he saw the digital clock in front of him, he couldn't take his eyes away from it and started ...
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Child tries to steal teacher attention when I speak to that teacher
I just took my child to preschool. Another child has just been brought in by their parent (we've just crossed paths at the front door of the preschool).
While my child started to take off their ...
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How to get the attention of my 3.5-year-old?
My 3.5-year-old son is very talkative and very focused/determined/stubborn.
A lot of times when we verbally try to get his attention it seems that he is ignoring us or that he is 'not hearing' ...
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How to get preschoolers to interact with me over the TV?
I'm a godfather/honorary uncle to a number of preschoolers. They get excited about my visits and mostly prefer to play with me. However, during my longer (8 hours to few days long) visits they will ...
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How to make my 1-year-old understand when she is being scolded?
I have a 14-month-old child. She's very active and likes to grab anything that catches her attention. Whenever we teach her something such as mama and papa, she doesn't want to listen, and her ...
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8-year-old girl very keen on her uncle and not on her aunt, a matter of age?
My wife and I are in our thirties. She is the "godmother" of a nice 8-year-old girl (her sister's single child). As her husband, she has become increasingly interested in me lately (I'd say since ...
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How to make my 3.5-year-old learn at home?
My 3.5-year-old recently started school. He never shows willingness to learn anything from me, never colours with me or does tracing or learns poems. I just take down everything needed and sit with ...
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How to help a 7-year-old who is stuck on the wrong answer?
We have an almost 7-year-old son, a 4-year-old daughter and our oldest daughter is mentally 3 years old because of cerebral palsy. Almost every day we show a two-minute children's video to all three ...
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How to make my 5-year-old focus on the task-at-hand?
My 5-year-old is struggling to concentrate for more than a brief period of time and is falling behind the other kids in her kindergarten class. When she does concentrate for a few minutes, she's able ...
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How to help our 9-year-old, who struggles with math, to focus?
My 9-year-old son is quadrilingual (fluent in all), education is in the language that both my husband and I are not speaking. He is our only child. We live in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium. We ...
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What to do about my almost 5-year-old always having to be first in everything or else crying and fighting?
I have 3 children. The oldest one, a girl, is turning 5 in 2 months, her brother just turned 4, and the little one just turned 1.
The oldest one will literally push her brother out the way to get in ...
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My 4 year old won't eat a meal in under an hour.
He used to be a great eater. My step kids were fussy eaters. Now the roles have reversed. My son takes an hour or more to eat a small meal. The tension at mealtimes is palpable. I have had some ...
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Older sibling demands more attention
So our little guy turned 2 today. We took him and his 4.5 year old brother out to breakfast and the zoo. After nap we opened some presents and played for a bit. After dinner we did singing and cake.
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I think my husband and I are the reason for our 18 month old delayed development issues
I am a first time parent to a beautiful bouncing baby boy 18 months old that is having a few delayed developmental problems (which I have seen many other parents having the same issues and are using ...
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Should a toddler who weaned only a few months ago be allowed to see mom nursing younger sibling?
My wife became pregnant with our third child when our second was only ten months old. She was nursing our second at the time, but she always had a problem of not having enough milk even though both ...
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Staying focused getting ready for school
We have three kids (a 9, 4 and 3 year old) and our middle child is severely disabled. My wife has some commuting challenges in the morning and thus has limited availability at the critical time and ...
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Getting child to focus
I have an 8 year old daughter that has a hard time focusing in everything she does. Don't get me wrong, she can focus when she wants to and if it's something that's she is interested in.
The other ...
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How do you control a hyperactive child?
How do you control a hyperactive child?
My niece who is a 5 year old is very hyperactive; it's unbelievable and it's hard to get her to settle and do something. If she does a puzzle or plays a ...
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How do I help my third-grader focus on homework?
My child just entered third grade, and the homework load is much higher this year, with a lot of writing and math drills. It is all work that she can do easily, but it's causing the whole family a lot ...
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Moving my speech delayed 5.5 yo son to a foreign environment
I have a speech-delayed 5.5 years old son. Our first language is Arabic and he goes to an Arabic school that teaches English as a second language.
We have been doing speech therapy since he was 3.5 ...
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How do I increase concentration of my 6years old daughter?
My daughter has a very low attention span. She is a bright child otherwise. But lack of concentration affects her studies.
Please could you recommend some activities or games that can help?
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4 year old daughter starved for Dad's attention
My 4 year old daugther always wants my attention, and I try my best to give it to her. Either by telling stories, playing with stuffed animals, reading books, or anything else she likes to do. I have ...
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How to teach greater attention and the ability to delay gratification?
The school recently held one of its regular parents' meeting, the first after our 8 year old daughter started her new class with a new teacher. She dislikes this teacher, complaining she is overly ...
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How to immediately correct a (gross) habit?
My son, an only child, is 19 months old. His two "siblings" are dogs twice his size and they get along great (I'm not sure how that sentence reads, but I'm not one of those people that actually ...
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Extrovert child forcing his company on others
My seven year-old son is extremely extroverted. My wife and I are both introverts, so we have a hard time relating to his behavior.
We have a quiet time every day for a couple hours, when my wife ...
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Loud Screaming to attract attention
Our 6 month baby screams at top of her throat to get attention , as soon as we resume playing with her she smiles and plays and she wants to play all day along which is not possible , so how to deal ...
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What are good strategies to deal with a child getting distracted during meals?
It's already been discussed how to handle a nursing baby who gets distracted instead of eating: What works to get a distracted nurser to eat during the day?.
But what strategies can I use to help a ...
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Preschooler can't sing, but sings anyway - loudly!
My 3½ year old has never had any sense of music, rhythm, notes, or anything resembling the musical arts. (Motor skills is where he truly excels; he's a sports person, not a musician.)
Recently, he ...
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