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<blockquote data-quote="chloedancer" data-source="post: 540629" data-attributes="member: 14724"><p>I think we are guilty also. As parents we push grades rather than effort. I realized this when my college aged daughter refused to take difficult courses bc they may mess up her gpa and my son who tries twice as hard has meltdowns over Cs. My new way of dealing with it is that I have told my kids any grade that is less than an A is fine, as long as all assignments are complete and turned in, I have seen them study nightly, and they have communicated with the teacher at least weekly. Also any available help ie tutoring, must be used. Then they have put in their best effort. If that yields a c I'm fine with that. That means they tried something difficult. If they don do those things, I will assume the materiel is not advanced enough for them and that an A is expected. I'll let you know how it works...it could blow p in my face really bad lol. But my point was we as parents also need to encourage and recognize effort over grades.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chloedancer, post: 540629, member: 14724"] I think we are guilty also. As parents we push grades rather than effort. I realized this when my college aged daughter refused to take difficult courses bc they may mess up her gpa and my son who tries twice as hard has meltdowns over Cs. My new way of dealing with it is that I have told my kids any grade that is less than an A is fine, as long as all assignments are complete and turned in, I have seen them study nightly, and they have communicated with the teacher at least weekly. Also any available help ie tutoring, must be used. Then they have put in their best effort. If that yields a c I'm fine with that. That means they tried something difficult. If they don do those things, I will assume the materiel is not advanced enough for them and that an A is expected. I'll let you know how it works...it could blow p in my face really bad lol. But my point was we as parents also need to encourage and recognize effort over grades. [/QUOTE]
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