Doc: How are your grades?
Teen: Average (teen looks down and gives a nervous smile while adding) “I could do better, but I’m lazy.”
What does average mean anyway? There is a law of averages and there is an average, but letter grades being average? Average usually means, they get mostly Cs, but they are not above [...]
Let’s say your teen walks into freshman year of high school and takes the socializing thing a little too seriously. They take it on like that is a prerequisite to getting into an Ivy League school. Their grades plummet. Sophomore year they realize their mistake and they make a great comeback! Mostly As with a [...]
It isn’t too early to think of high school graduation. In fact if your teen is thinking about graduation now, they are making all the right moves to get themselves there. A great part of graduation for parents is certainly watching their teen graduate, but the other part is the commencement speech. There are few [...]
Have you ever tried to learn something like rollerblading, skateboarding or maybe chess, and discovered you were awful. Not just sort of bad, but awful. You probably walked away and never looked back. Good riddance! After all, who wants to do something every day that reminds them how much they suck!
This is what happens to [...]
“I’m lazy,” “The teacher sucks!” Don’t accept excuses like these from your teen so readily. There are reasons your teen isn’t excelling as they should. Lack of insight into why they are doing something will frequently cause them to make-up an answer they think will get the teacher or parent to change the subject rather than really [...]
You get the call from your teen’s school and they explain that because your teen was seen by another student accepting something that appeared to look like drugs they are suspending your teen. You are confused because now the reward for your teen’s behavior is…a vacation?
When your teen is suspended or has any disciplinary time off [...]
Precious is the name of the movie inspired by the book Push by Sapphire. The story is a poetic novel written in the first person of the narrator, Claireece Precious Jones who faces seemingly insurmountable odds.
The movie is being produced by Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry known for his great story telling of human experiences [...]
Your teen hates a teacher and therefore feels it’s okay to do poorly in a class. For a teen, this can be a justifiable excuse. It’s important to help your teen re-think this type of reasoning since it doesn’t allow them to develop the life skill of taking responsibility for their actions.
Doing poorly because you hate your teacher [...]
If your teen is a senior, you’ve probably asked them what they want to do after high school. The “good” answer is, “Go to college.” And, this is a good answer. Parents associate a college education with more opportunity and economic stability and rightly so the current unemployment rate among college graduates is 3.1% in [...]
When your teen fails, they define themselves by that failure and it affects their self-esteem, their identity. The poor performance, the missed goal, the drug problem, the teen pregnancy, the rejected girl or boyfriend define who they are. “Man, I’m such a loser!”
Irrespective of what you may have thought about the speech President Obama gave [...]
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