Attention and recess time

A school in Texas school has found that increasing the recess time of kindergartners and first graders has led to improvements in sitting still and attention: https://returntonow.net/2017/11/21/texas-school-beaths-adhd-tripling-recess-time/

A new study suggests that teenagers have not fully developed the ability to multitask.  When they are engaged in  social interactions or attending to devices, it is more difficult for them to take in other information and attend to it. So, they may not be deliberately ignoring their parents. More likely that it is more cognitively challenging for […]