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<blockquote data-quote="dashcat" data-source="post: 442867" data-attributes="member: 9175"><p>My daughter often spends more energy avoiding work than she would spend actually working. I find this infuriating, puzzling and -a t times - amusing. I've said that she did not become a difficult child until later in life but, in this area, she has been a difficult child forever. In the third grade, she was in a G&T program. The kids were given an assignment where they did playground interviews, recorded their findings on an Excel spreadsheet and wrote a report. The teacher, kinowing difficult child, pulled her aside and said "You need to write an entire PAGE on each of your findings". She kniew difficult child would write a sentance and be done with it. difficult child's solution? She tore a piece of notebook paper into tiny strips, wrote a sentance or two on each of her findings and turned it in! Ah - if only such creative energy were spent actually working!</p><p></p><p>I roped her into helping me spread mulch a few weeks ago. She'd called and wanted to come play the piano, so she couldn't say she was busy or anything. Getting her to work is WORK, but she did help. I then offered to take her for ice cream. We went in the house to get the keys and I told her to wash her hands (yes, she is twenty and has to be told this). We got outside and I said "go back in and wash your hands." She said "I'll just use the baby wipes in the car.". I mean we were FILTHY from this mulch, but she'd rather eat ice cream with filthy hands - or use the baby wipes in the glove box - than walk 15 feet to the sink!!!</p><p></p><p>She takes "lazy" into an art form.</p><p>Dash</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dashcat, post: 442867, member: 9175"] My daughter often spends more energy avoiding work than she would spend actually working. I find this infuriating, puzzling and -a t times - amusing. I've said that she did not become a difficult child until later in life but, in this area, she has been a difficult child forever. In the third grade, she was in a G&T program. The kids were given an assignment where they did playground interviews, recorded their findings on an Excel spreadsheet and wrote a report. The teacher, kinowing difficult child, pulled her aside and said "You need to write an entire PAGE on each of your findings". She kniew difficult child would write a sentance and be done with it. difficult child's solution? She tore a piece of notebook paper into tiny strips, wrote a sentance or two on each of her findings and turned it in! Ah - if only such creative energy were spent actually working! I roped her into helping me spread mulch a few weeks ago. She'd called and wanted to come play the piano, so she couldn't say she was busy or anything. Getting her to work is WORK, but she did help. I then offered to take her for ice cream. We went in the house to get the keys and I told her to wash her hands (yes, she is twenty and has to be told this). We got outside and I said "go back in and wash your hands." She said "I'll just use the baby wipes in the car.". I mean we were FILTHY from this mulch, but she'd rather eat ice cream with filthy hands - or use the baby wipes in the glove box - than walk 15 feet to the sink!!! She takes "lazy" into an art form. Dash [/QUOTE]
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