Tips and tricks for helping homeschool kids to focus

Distracted homeschool kids stressing you out or making you doubt your homeschool decision? Helping homeschool kids to focus is not as hard as it might seem.

If you ever stress because you just can’t seem to get your homeschooler to focus, you are not alone. In fact, you are probably more not alone now than ever before in human history.

The truth is homeschoolers have trouble focusing but let’s be honest in today’s society EVERYONE is having trouble focusing.

We are more distracted than ever before.

With cell phones we have non-stop alerts, pop up’s, notifications, calls, texts, social media messages, and more. We have automated front door cameras, video callers, and robotic vacuum cleaners. Really what I am saying is that in our era of super convenience living our list of ways to get distracted is never-ending.

So the distracted homeschooled child is in the same boat as literally billions of other people both child and adult alike.

Why can’t my kid focus?

While I am not a doctor and I can’t give you any medical advice. Before you go looking for a diagnosis like ADHD lets talk about all the reasons why kids actually have a harder time today than ever before.

Food our food today is less nutritious than it used to be. While something as healthy as an apple has only a fraction of the nutrients it did in the 1950s, we are getting less and less support from our food. The use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides has skyrocketed since the 1990s and with it, the rate of kids diagnosed with ADD/ADHD. And while our brains use something like 20% of the fuel for energy yet only weighs 2% of our body weight. That means our brains are energy hogs, and that energy has to come from somewhere.
Electromagnetic Frequencies or EMFs. They surround us like never before. As our world has increased in cell phones and devices, smart TVs, wireless printers, Bluetooth headphones, and Ipads for FaceTiming with Grandma our kids are being bombarded with EMFs that have many, I repeat many, negative side effects and one of those is… You guessed it, having difficulty focusing. So while that new 5G cell tower went in down the road and gave your cell phone a great big boost, it might have had quite the opposite effect on your child’s focusing abilities.
Gut health as science has started to understand in the last decade our gut health is a huge indicator of brain health. With the rise of things like c-section births, medications, more and more vaccines being added to the line up for childhood vaccinations, glyphosate laden foods, and junk foods the kids of today have the worst gut health than any other people in the history of time.
Constant distractions are not just something kids face but everyone. Spent any time out with other adults lately? Next time you take your kids to gymnastics practice, a piano recital or a basketball game look around. You will see a HUGE percentage of people all scrolling on a phone. If our children are unfocused where do you think they are getting the examples from?

While I hear many adults talk about kids like they are just not trying, notice none of what we just talked about has anything to do with the child’s choice to be lazy or put in a lack of effort. Nope, it is simply the cards they were dealt at the times when they came into this world.

No kid is ever at fault for a new 5G tower giving them non stop waves of EMFs making things like sleeping, focusing and healing harder for them. It’s not a child’s fault for not having the brainpower when the government agencies mandate they will need 26 vaccines (filled with a concoction of heavy metals and chemicals known to cause brain and learning issues) by the age of two, that more than 5X what their parents born in the 1980s had to get.

While none of this is your fault and its certainly not their fault but none of these things are really helping homeschool kids to focus.

Homeschooling Challenges

Hopefully, I did my best to show you how kids and focusing is not really a homeschool challenge but a societal challenge right now. However, as a homeschooler, the challenge is yours to remedy not a teacher’s or principal’s.

Admittedly, these challenges seem overwhelming even impossible odds, but I assure you they are not. They are just what they are a challenge for our times. Like the Dirty ’30s had their unique challenges, and the covered wagon days had their own challenges we have ours, focusing challenges.

So while I will agree that homeschooling a distracted, ADHD, Autistic, or Special Needs Child can give them huge advantages over a public school one-size-fits-all mold. Distracted minds are still a real challenge but there are also some great ways to combat this.