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Consequences for D's and F's????
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<blockquote data-quote="dreamer" data-source="post: 121070" data-attributes="member: 1697"><p>"Quote:</p><p>Originally Posted by dreamer </p><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>OK, here's where my dander gets up. M's therapist used to pull the same line of BS. He doesn't do the work so he deals with the consequences which are bad grades. Excuse me? If he cared about his grades, they'd be good! What kind of consequence is that?"</p><p></p><p>I am not quite sure that just careing about good grades always makes good grades a possibility. Mostly I was thinking that the therapist may have created a situation where difficult child did not get the help needed, and partly from the therapists idea, it helped this child fall further behind. Rather than leaving the child to flounder, maybe a better plan of action would have been to help the child work on homework issues? Or something (I am not sure just what the better plan might have been, but maybe there might have been a better plan......a more helpful plan?) </p><p></p><p>I do think for "some" kids, bad grades might be a motivation to work harder, but for some kids, that just is not the answer at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dreamer, post: 121070, member: 1697"] "Quote: Originally Posted by dreamer 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? OK, here's where my dander gets up. M's therapist used to pull the same line of BS. He doesn't do the work so he deals with the consequences which are bad grades. Excuse me? If he cared about his grades, they'd be good! What kind of consequence is that?" I am not quite sure that just careing about good grades always makes good grades a possibility. Mostly I was thinking that the therapist may have created a situation where difficult child did not get the help needed, and partly from the therapists idea, it helped this child fall further behind. Rather than leaving the child to flounder, maybe a better plan of action would have been to help the child work on homework issues? Or something (I am not sure just what the better plan might have been, but maybe there might have been a better plan......a more helpful plan?) I do think for "some" kids, bad grades might be a motivation to work harder, but for some kids, that just is not the answer at all. [/QUOTE]
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