Nanaw limited Chase's device use on Tuesday morning, including the car phone. But she said he could play with the car phone on the drive home from school this afternoon. After school, Chase didn't have any homework so he and Nanaw worked on the problems he missed on the math test. Nanaw had written four problems for him to work on, each on a separate piece of paper so he could concentrate just on one problem. They had a long conversation about how to take a math test, how to check the problems, how to think about the way to solve the problems, to take his time and not rush through the test and to pay attention to what he's doing. The "pay attention" comment got his attention (LOL), and he told Nanaw that he's a Gen Z, and they have a short attention span. Nanaw Googled Gen Z and saw that they're born between 1995 and 2010 so Chase is not quite in that group because he was born in 2011, but he wants to be a Gen Z. In addition to the short attention span (Google says 8 seconds), they also are addicted to devices. Chase did well on three of the four problems. They'll work on more problems tomorrow.
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