Posts Tagged ‘rewarding your child’

Motivating Underachievers II: Get Your Unmotivated Child on Track before School Starts

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

In Part II of  Motivating Underachievers, James explains what you can do to get your child on track before school starts—and how you can motivate them to do their school work during the year.
For a teen-ager, there are many ways to say “screw you” to your parents. And for underachieving kids, being motivated to do [...]

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Living with Little Lawyers: Don’t Over-negotiate with Your Child

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

If you are a parent who negotiates constantly with your child, you probably feel like you’re living with a little lawyer who “objects” to every rule and request and wears you down with endless questions and challenges. With some kids, everything becomes a negotiation, and it starts from the time they get up in the [...]

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