I am 13 and I don’t like to study. I always play video games all day. My grades are going down. What should I do?

It’s easy for older people to tell you to just stop playing video games and study because it’s important. However, you seem to understand the priority here already and are looking for techniques to successfully study more rather than just be told whether to study or not.

I personally love video games and still play them. At your age I never studied but my grades were too high for it to be a problem. My younger brother, however, also a video game lover, absolutely had to study to keep his grades up. He is 24 now, butt I helped and observed him through his school years. Here are a few things you can try.

It’s easy for older people to tell you to just stop playing video games and study because it’s important. However, you seem to understand the priority here already and are looking for techniques to successfully study more rather than just be told whether to study or not.

I personally love video games and still play them. At your age I never studied but my grades were too high for it to be a problem. My younger brother, however, also a video game lover, absolutely had to study to keep his grades up. He is 24 now, butt I helped and observed him through his school years. Here are a few things you can try. Another idea is to play video games on the weekends and do all schooling during the week. This worked well for me in college, but if you are virtual learning currently because of coronavirus, it’s extremely hard to escape the distractions of electronics. If you have your video games in your room and are too tempted to play them while study, absolutely do not study in your room. When you get home from school, don’t go into your room until you are done your homework and reviewed lessons and materials from that day. If you are learning virtually, have your computer not in your room and don’t return to your room until you do your homework.

Places like the kitchen might work well for you, but any place with minimal distractions is good. Studying and homework goes by a lot faster without distractions. The last idea I will write here might not apply very well to your situation since you are 13 and they may not be a thing, but study groups are great. It makes you focus on the subject matter and with everyone else studying, it helps you have some motivation to study as well rather than try and convince yourself to study when alone vs play video games. The last idea I will write here might not apply very well to your situation since you are 13 and they may not be a thing, but study groups are great. It makes you focus on the subject matter and with everyone else studying, it helps you have some motivation to study as well rather than try and convince yourself to study when alone vs play video games.

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Finally, if you are playing online competitive games, you may need to make the adult decision that you can’t play 24/7 and be at the top. There are people very successful who compete professionally in these games in tournaments, but you don’t sound like you are playing video games because you MUST GET BETTER. These competitive games can be very life-sucking as they are all very time consuming unless you plays pay to win type games (in which you pay tons of money or spend your life playing trying to keep up). I suggest getting rid of those game types while school is in session. They rarely make you feel better, distract you and waste time, and you have almost no accomplishments to show for your time and effort because there’s always something new and better to get.

Remember, your video games aren’t going anywhere and can wait, and even be your reward for good grades if you enjoy them. You don’t even have to give them up, you just need to find strategies that work where you study and keep your grades up and then the rest of your time is free!

Also, if you don’t know how to study, you absolutely need to learn how to do so to make the most of your time and make study time less painful.

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Scientists have conducted clinical trials with about 3,000 children and the FDA has determined that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine has met the safety and efficacy standards for authorization in children ages 5 through 15 years.

Some parents want to wait to vaccinate their kids. Here’s why doctors say do it now.

COVID-19 shots for kids are on their way, but Dr. Ibukunoluwa Kalu, a pediatrician and infectious disease specialist at Duke University, says that some parents she has talked with aren’t sure how they feel about that.

“Now that this option is becoming a reality, parents are now weighing that decision of vaccinate or not as we’re reaching a point in the pandemic where it seems that case rates have either plateaued or declined quite significantly in a lot of areas,” she says. “Which is a good thing, but it puts us in an interesting quandary.”

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Polls show that many parents are on the fence about whether and when to vaccinate their younger kids. We’ve talked to pediatricians and looked at the data to provide answers to common questions on parents’ minds.

I’ve heard COVID is mild for most kids. Do they really need to be vaccinated?

It’s true that most children infected with the virus have only mild symptoms and that children rarely die from the disease. But scientists and health officials recommending the shot emphasize that vaccination could prevent many infections, as well as disruptions to schooling, hospitalizations and rare but severe complications of the disease.

More than 8,300 kids aged 5 to 11 have been hospitalized with COVID-19 because of serious illness. According to a CDC analysis, the number of children and adolescents admitted to the hospital increased nearly fivefold over the summer months amid the delta surge.

In addition, more than 5,200 children and teens have developed MIS-C, or multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, a condition linked to COVID-19 that often leads to ICU admission. The median age of kids getting MIS-C is 9 years old.

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