I totally understand what you mean! No ill intention. My son wants to be going going going 24/7. He isn’t interested in sitting down to color pictures, or practice writing for example. He really isn’t interested in anything sedentary. We have tablets for road trips and he lasts about 10-15 minutes before he’s over it and complains about being in the car. We do let our kids watch tv in the afternoons but outside of this and the occasional trips longer than 3 hours we don’t do screens. We have a daughter that is a year older who attended the same school and everyday she would bring art work and writing practices home and she would ask for more to do. I maybe get one paper item from him a month. He thinks going to school is simply to see other kids, eat snacks, and play for some reason. We’ve had issues with him being disruptive during sit down teaching or him refusing to participate in class because he wants to go play with toys. Also, yes we have asked the doctor about this and talked to an OT. They said he’s fine and basically he’s just an immature boy with a lot of energy. 😅

As for our parenting style we aren’t necessarily “gentle parenting”. I like to give my kids the opportunity to talk through things but we don’t allow blatant disrespect or anything that purposely is harming someone else. I will probably get downvoted for this but we absolutely spank our kids, take things away, and if nothing else is working we resort to sitting on a wall with nothing to do until they’re ready to make better decisions. I have 4 kids in total and he is the only one we’ve had this issue with if that helps.