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My son is 11. He is a very smart kid (is in a "gifted" program at school) and has always been the less challenging of the 2 kids to parent. Well, we have hit the "tween" stage and hard. In the last 2 months, he has become surly, lazy, grades are all B's because his attitude is "why do more when I already get decent grades". His teacher is at her wits end with him, and so are we. He is forgetting projects that he has more than adequate time to complete. He is just making me crazy!
He had a difficult time the first 9 weeks of school and we had a come to Jesus meeting with him and threatend that all extra-cirricular (sp?) activites would do. He straightened up and was proud of himself for doing better with his grades. Then we saw the slide downward again and he is not responding to anything we say or do. Baseball season is going strong and that would be the one thing to take away to get his attention, but I don't know if that would work for or against us right now.
Any advice from Mom's that have been through this would certainly be welcome at this point. The good news is that his sister, who is 8, has taken time off from her attitude issues so at least we don't have to deal with both right now!
He had a difficult time the first 9 weeks of school and we had a come to Jesus meeting with him and threatend that all extra-cirricular (sp?) activites would do. He straightened up and was proud of himself for doing better with his grades. Then we saw the slide downward again and he is not responding to anything we say or do. Baseball season is going strong and that would be the one thing to take away to get his attention, but I don't know if that would work for or against us right now.
Any advice from Mom's that have been through this would certainly be welcome at this point. The good news is that his sister, who is 8, has taken time off from her attitude issues so at least we don't have to deal with both right now!