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<blockquote data-quote="welcometowitsend" data-source="post: 540849" data-attributes="member: 14356"><p>I hear you on this! </p><p></p><p>easy child is such a hard-working child. Already looking at ways to pursue her career goals as she gets older. She wants to be a dance teacher and a photographer and is researching how to achieve these goals. Not academic but she has so many significant Learning Disability (LD)'s that I can't say I blame her. She has a plan and is willing to go after it. </p><p></p><p>difficult child is the opposite. Seems to be lazy in the extreme. Not sure if that's the ADD or something else but it's there. Smart as a whip, could pursue anything he chooses to... but does the minimum to get by. I believe that if he actually did any work he could get mid 90's - he gets low 70's. </p><p></p><p>easy child is internally motivated and difficult child needs to be externally motivated - I think this is the main difference between them. Is it possible to teach a child to be internally motivated? Or is it just something you're born with? Does it come from discovering a passion for something you love? We don't all find that, do we? </p><p></p><p>That said I find that I must externally motivate difficult child like you have done in order to get any work out of him that will get him a decent grade. Everything is left until the last minute and an all-nighter is usually pulled in order to spit out something that can be handed in. Ugh! </p><p></p><p>Interesting conversation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="welcometowitsend, post: 540849, member: 14356"] I hear you on this! easy child is such a hard-working child. Already looking at ways to pursue her career goals as she gets older. She wants to be a dance teacher and a photographer and is researching how to achieve these goals. Not academic but she has so many significant Learning Disability (LD)'s that I can't say I blame her. She has a plan and is willing to go after it. difficult child is the opposite. Seems to be lazy in the extreme. Not sure if that's the ADD or something else but it's there. Smart as a whip, could pursue anything he chooses to... but does the minimum to get by. I believe that if he actually did any work he could get mid 90's - he gets low 70's. easy child is internally motivated and difficult child needs to be externally motivated - I think this is the main difference between them. Is it possible to teach a child to be internally motivated? Or is it just something you're born with? Does it come from discovering a passion for something you love? We don't all find that, do we? That said I find that I must externally motivate difficult child like you have done in order to get any work out of him that will get him a decent grade. Everything is left until the last minute and an all-nighter is usually pulled in order to spit out something that can be handed in. Ugh! Interesting conversation. [/QUOTE]
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