High School: How To Help Your Child Increase Their Attention Span

How can I help my high school-age child increase their attention span?

We can help high school-aged kids with their attention span in helping them to know themselves a little better. "What is a good period of time for you to work on this homework?", for example. "Is fifteen minutes a good period?", then you take a little brake, and do something else, and you come back. Its very important that we help kids to pace themselves. We call it self regulation. Some of us can stay on task for hours and hours because we know we're going to be successful and because we're hyper-attentive. Other people who aren't so hyper-attentive can stay on task and be engaged if they break it up - if they break the task up into smaller parts that they see success at is possible. Then they'll stay on the task. If we can help our children to learn that skill of self regulation, we can help them to pay attention better.