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Consequences for D's and F's????
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<blockquote data-quote="dreamer" data-source="post: 121055" data-attributes="member: 1697"><p>The therapist advised letting your child take charge of her work and then she could deal with the consequences? OK, so the grades are the consequences? and now child is supposed to deal with them?</p><p>{(edited to add-----) I am curious if maybe the therapist meant that the low grades themself would be the consequences?-- altho in my humble opinion, it seems to me, yes, that backfired, or might have backfired, and could have caused your difficult child to not have the opportunity to grasp the material presented at that time} </p><p>If your difficult child does not seem to be stable on current medications, that could contribute to the grades issues. Even if the other behavior seems ok, the grades could still be related to instability. Or attention span.....and if difficult child struggled one semester and began falling behind, it will dominoe and difficult child could be slowly falling further behind, where it might take more to crawl out of a hole....trying to catch up, but haveing missed foundation work that was laid earlier, will make the newer work harder to grasp? </p><p></p><p>Also, many bipolar people do have a harder time of it in winter months, and it can get progressively more difficult as winter wears on....</p><p>It would be great if a bipolar child could just automatically know to push themself harder and cope better dureing their more symptomatic times, this is a skill that must be taught to them, they need to be equipped to learn how to accomodate themself and work with their issues. It might seem to a casual observer your child is not applying herself to schoolwork, but the reality may be that instability is the biggest problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dreamer, post: 121055, member: 1697"] The therapist advised letting your child take charge of her work and then she could deal with the consequences? OK, so the grades are the consequences? and now child is supposed to deal with them? {(edited to add-----) I am curious if maybe the therapist meant that the low grades themself would be the consequences?-- altho in my humble opinion, it seems to me, yes, that backfired, or might have backfired, and could have caused your difficult child to not have the opportunity to grasp the material presented at that time} If your difficult child does not seem to be stable on current medications, that could contribute to the grades issues. Even if the other behavior seems ok, the grades could still be related to instability. Or attention span.....and if difficult child struggled one semester and began falling behind, it will dominoe and difficult child could be slowly falling further behind, where it might take more to crawl out of a hole....trying to catch up, but haveing missed foundation work that was laid earlier, will make the newer work harder to grasp? Also, many bipolar people do have a harder time of it in winter months, and it can get progressively more difficult as winter wears on.... It would be great if a bipolar child could just automatically know to push themself harder and cope better dureing their more symptomatic times, this is a skill that must be taught to them, they need to be equipped to learn how to accomodate themself and work with their issues. It might seem to a casual observer your child is not applying herself to schoolwork, but the reality may be that instability is the biggest problem. [/QUOTE]
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