Learning to Pay Attention

Both alia and en struggled to pay attention, and it looked really different. But the one thing they have in common with all kids who struggle to pay attention is that their challenges came from adults expecting them just to pay attention without working with their brains. The first step to improving your child's attention is to challenge your own assumptions about attention. Reddy: What does paying attention look like to you? How can you tell someone is paying attention to you? Are there times you struggle to paid attention as an adult? And how do you avoid things that are hard to pay attention to?