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<blockquote data-quote="DaisyFace" data-source="post: 551995" data-attributes="member: 6546"><p>92025--</p><p></p><p>You can't think of it as "giving up". Of course you will never give up on your child!</p><p></p><p>But as a friend pointed out to me once - it is easy to become too vested in your child's success. At the end of the day - your child is who he is. You cannot force someone to be a success - regardless of how capable they may be. If he wants it - he will work for it....but it is really up to him.</p><p></p><p>I have too kids who are pretty smart. difficult child does not do homework. She skips classes. She could care less about her GPA or her education in general. And so she has managed to get herself in all the lowest-level classes that require the least amount of work so that she could skate through. And she has been doing just that - skating through. She is now on track to graduate hs...yes she is at the bottom of her class....but she will graduate nonetheless. And she is prefectly happy with that.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, my DS is driven. He wants that college scholarship. He goes the extra mile on school projects. He does the extra credit. Sometimes he needs help - and I am happy to jump in and help - and sometimes he tells me to back off and let him handle it. I have no doubt he's going to get himself that scholarship.</p><p></p><p>Two kids - two very different personalities....and that's not a darn thing I can do to change either one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaisyFace, post: 551995, member: 6546"] 92025-- You can't think of it as "giving up". Of course you will never give up on your child! But as a friend pointed out to me once - it is easy to become too vested in your child's success. At the end of the day - your child is who he is. You cannot force someone to be a success - regardless of how capable they may be. If he wants it - he will work for it....but it is really up to him. I have too kids who are pretty smart. difficult child does not do homework. She skips classes. She could care less about her GPA or her education in general. And so she has managed to get herself in all the lowest-level classes that require the least amount of work so that she could skate through. And she has been doing just that - skating through. She is now on track to graduate hs...yes she is at the bottom of her class....but she will graduate nonetheless. And she is prefectly happy with that. Meanwhile, my DS is driven. He wants that college scholarship. He goes the extra mile on school projects. He does the extra credit. Sometimes he needs help - and I am happy to jump in and help - and sometimes he tells me to back off and let him handle it. I have no doubt he's going to get himself that scholarship. Two kids - two very different personalities....and that's not a darn thing I can do to change either one. [/QUOTE]
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