Crowded living conditions make it difficult for them to concentrate on homework.
Students said they, or people they know, typically took them to better concentrate on homework or exams, to stay awake during long nights of drinking or, by mixing them with other drugs, to find a yet-undiscovered high.
Don't waste time looking for ways to concentrate on homework, just get it done.
THE first sign may be that your bright child is having trouble reading, or organizing school assignments, or concentrating on homework.
Dr. David F. Dinges, chief of the sleep and chronobiology division at the University of Pennsylvania, has conducted studies that show that frequent episodes of depressed moods can at a minimum cause significant problems for students, especially when they are learning concepts and concentrating on homework.
According to Feeding America's newly released Map the Meal Gap report, the percentage of food-insecure children in West Michigan and the Upper Peninsula increased from 20.2percentt in 2012 to 20.4percentt in 2013, meaning that nearly 114,000 kids who should be concentrating on homework are instead worrying about where their next meal will come from.
Six-year-old Carisma is trying to concentrate on her homework.
Mr. Maazel treated it like a breakthrough work of 1920's French modernism right from the opening, when two oboes playing in seemingly aimless parallel intervals convey the restlessness of the boy, who cannot concentrate on his homework.
From the point of view of men, after all, constantly high testosterone is a real problem, as any 15-year-old boy trying to concentrate on his homework will tell you.
Sister Misericordia, her sixth-grade teacher, had spoken obliquely of "certain influences within the family" after Jacoby turned in a story that struck her as decidedly Jewish, about a "a girl trying to concentrate on her homework while a spider concentrated on spinning a web underneath her dress".
When Shania came home, she couldn't concentrate on her homework.
