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re: Anyone have a kid that just doesn’t care about school?
Posted on 1/30/23 at 1:37 pm to Prominentwon
Posted on 1/30/23 at 1:37 pm to Prominentwon
One we did not have to do a thing with. The other one had to stay on all the time. Most boys have a disorganized faze around that age maybe a little older. They for get to turn stuff in that they may have even done. Used to drive me crazy.
You need to somehow start to correlate school with success in life.
You need to somehow start to correlate school with success in life.
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Posted on 1/30/23 at 1:37 pm to TheRouxGuru
quote:Yep.
YouTube has DESTROYED his attention span
It’s a generational thing.
Flashing lights and pretty colors. They are all hooked on the product.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 1:38 pm to Prominentwon
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Very loving kid towards family. Very social and friendly kid with peers. Does great. He goes through the motions basically just to get to recess.
Then it sounds like he's just not getting what he needs intellectually at school.
Definitely see about gifted and talented programs. Or even something outside of school to stimulate him from an educational aspect?
I'd be far more concerned if he wasn't participating in anything or not engaging with peers/your family like a normal, healthy kid.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 1:39 pm to Tiger Ryno
Sanford and Son taught me more than every lib douche that taught at LSU.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 1:39 pm to Prominentwon
My older son is in the 11th grade
DGAF
Was a straight A student up until 9th grade
DGAF
Was a straight A student up until 9th grade
Posted on 1/30/23 at 1:39 pm to fallguy_1978
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One of my nephews is 15 and doesn't give a shite about school. His 2 sisters win all sorts of academic awards too
My older brother and I lived outdoors, avoiding schoolwork until we were in HS.
He's a CFO for a pretty decent corporation and has his own tax business and makes a damn good living.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 1:40 pm to Prominentwon
quote:in the real world if you don’t pay fines they turn into time behind bars, if you take it a step further and try to attack the government they shoot back. In the parenting world I compare grounding to time behind bars. If that doesn’t work you take it a step farther and whup that arse. I’ve never had to discipline my young child that way yet because she’s an angel and a toddler but im sure the day will come. If he’s consistently disobeying then a belt can fix it until he matures and begins caring himself. That should be somewhere around 14/15.
He doesn’t care. Grounded. Doesn’t care. Will just serve the time and go back to coasting.
This post was edited on 1/30/23 at 1:54 pm
Posted on 1/30/23 at 1:40 pm to Prominentwon
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Anyone have a kid that just doesn’t care about school?
May I introduce you to 90% of my students?
Posted on 1/30/23 at 1:41 pm to Prominentwon
Don't make your final evaluation of him when he's 10. If he's got a 3.0 without trying, let him coast for now. You never know when something might kick an interest up. He's got a long time to go. I went to school with 2 guys who were national merit finalists thru high school. Both didn't make 2 years in college. They both worked part time jobs for several years after I even got out of college. One ended up as a house painter. Now he has his own painting business. The other guy, last I heard was working for a radio station running the boards or whatever.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 1:42 pm to Breauxsif
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Keep mentioning what life would be like poor
Right? My little one is definitely too young for these conversations, but I feel like I would drive her around a poor neighborhood and tell her that's where people live who don't care about school.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 1:43 pm to Prominentwon
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He doesn’t care. Grounded. Doesn’t care. Will just serve the time and go back to coasting.
Negative (punitive) reinforcement never worked with me. I could always find a way to cope.
Try positive reinforcement, tying achievement to reward. BF Skinner taught rats to salute the flag using this technique.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 1:43 pm to Prominentwon
We are in a similar situation. Nothing motivates the kid. Well something is working now...he has a girlfriend who is very driven..so that is seeming to help. He's ADHD as a product of a meth using biological mom while she was pregnant with him. He was on Focalin (stimulant ADHD med). He wouldn't take it some mornings. Said it changed him. So we found Qelbree and it seems to be working okay so far.
As long as we keep him in sports and he behaves with his phone so he can talk to his GF, his grades seem to be ok. Now, does he apply himself the way I know he can? No. He seems to "half-arse" a lot of things. But it's a work in progress and to us he's 2 years old since we adopted him 2 years ago.
As long as we keep him in sports and he behaves with his phone so he can talk to his GF, his grades seem to be ok. Now, does he apply himself the way I know he can? No. He seems to "half-arse" a lot of things. But it's a work in progress and to us he's 2 years old since we adopted him 2 years ago.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 1:43 pm to Prominentwon
I would have a lot of trouble concentrating with all that gender dysphoria running through my head too. Sounds like little baw isn’t a little baw after all
This post was edited on 1/30/23 at 1:44 pm
Posted on 1/30/23 at 1:45 pm to Prominentwon
Remove all electronics, unsubscribe and outright wipe all social media and Xbox type accounts. Make him pick a sport or some activity that requires others to rely on him.
Think about therapy or counseling. A depressive 10yo is odd. He may say things to them he wouldn't tell you.
I was expecting a 16-17yo.
Think about therapy or counseling. A depressive 10yo is odd. He may say things to them he wouldn't tell you.
I was expecting a 16-17yo.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 1:46 pm to The Top G
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"Brilliant" people don't do shite like that. Brilliant people are certainly a lot of times lazy, but they don't not do well, because they're brilliant.
This is like people arguing that someone dropping out of ULM to work on a pipeline are the same as Steve Jobs dropping out of Stanford to invent the fricking desktop computer.
You clearly don't understand gifted kids.
I had pretty much the same circle of friends from 2nd grade on, because of the gifted program in our parish. Almost all of the most intellectually brilliant of those kids are drop-outs doing shite well beneath their mental level. The ones who weren't so brilliant but made it into gifted through sheer hard work and determination? They're doing a lot better.
Like a kid spoiled by his parents will have a problem adjusting to hard work in later life, the intellectually gifted who aren't properly challenged in early life will have difficulties adjusting to real challenges later in life. There's always a time one needs more than just their intellect alone, and they won't skirt by anymore.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 1:46 pm to Prominentwon
Grades don’t matter in elementary. I wouldn’t ground him over a B average as a 10 year old.
What you want him to learn is work ethic, especially if he’s a smart kid. If he’s putting effort into extracurriculars then he clearly has that. I’d say lighten up a little.
What you want him to learn is work ethic, especially if he’s a smart kid. If he’s putting effort into extracurriculars then he clearly has that. I’d say lighten up a little.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 1:46 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
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My older son is in the 11th grade
DGAF
Was a straight A student up until 9th grade
So, near the time of the COVID shutdowns. Since we started back in the fall of 2020, things aren’t nearly the same.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 1:47 pm to The Top G
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Not to be rude, but if he's brilliant he would be making straight A's without doing the things he mentioned.
Agreed with this, a 3.0 (B average) in the 4th grade is not brilliant.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 1:47 pm to Prominentwon
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Very loving kid towards family. Very social and friendly kid with peers. Does great. He goes through the motions basically just to get to recess.
While I imagine this can be frustrating, I don't feel it is uncommon.
Your kid isn't going to be a doctor but that's ok.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 1:49 pm to skullhawk
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While I imagine this can be frustrating, I don't feel it is uncommon.
Its not, at all.
Kid will be fine. Maybe he's not a nerd, but has plenty of social IQ. More opportunities for him.
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