It amazes me how teenagers, including Amanda, think that they are so much smarter then we, adults, are. Amanda has been complaining for at least 2 years about the following things:
- being tired
- unable to fall asleep
- unable to stay focused
- feeling like she has ADD
- and a general feeling of malaise
Well, don't you know, as I have told her and tried to counsel her on...this is a new epidemic among teenagers and young adults being called the Electronic Epidemic. Kids are staying 'connected' past bedtimes, mentally over stimulated so they don't fall asleep easily, interrupted by texts and IM's and other communications while studying, reading, trying to sleep and so on. It is an actual documented 'disease' affecting us today.
Now...will she do anything to improve her life? No, I will have to use it as a weapon if her grades are not sufficient:( and I hate always being the bad guy.
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