Homework Battles and Life After a Screen-Time Ban - Ep. 431

Homework season starts and goes about as badly as Laura feared, leaving her looking for a way to get it done somewhere other than the kitchen table. Shanna's brutal mornings turn around after an unexpected discovery at urgent care. In this week's "Loose Ends" segment, Shanna and Laura revisit the stories they left dangling: whether a months-long screen time ban is still holding up, where a nine-month-overdue front tooth finally landed, and whether a head wound is going to leave a scar. They also share this week's BFPs and BFNs.

Kids' ages: Shanna's kids are 7.5 and 10.5 years old, and Laura's kids are 7.5 and 5.5 years old.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• When homework becomes a nightly fight

• Homework and ADHD: when easy work is still painful

• Why kids do homework for other adults but not their parents

• How a hidden ear infection can lower a kid's frustration threshold

• Choosing a pediatric urgent care over a general clinic

• Getting a medication-anxious kid to take ear drops

• When a permanent tooth takes nine months to come in

• Scar care and silicone scar gel for kids

• Starting over on an occupational therapy waitlist

• Talking about your child's struggles with your child in the room

• Life after a screen time ban: what the kids actually do instead

• Why movies work better than episodes for sensitive kids

• Rage cleaning as a household strategy

• Keeping a drip irrigation system alive while you travel

Products, links, resources mentioned in this episode:

• BIOCORNEUM scar gel

• How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis

• KC Davis's Struggle Care site

• Dog with a Blog

• The Comeback

• Hollywood Bowl

• The Buy Nothing Project

• Cat's Cradle toy

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