I dunno Mike. Tough one that I am also struggling with.
Arden is in 8th and we are really trying to get her to develop better study habits before HS cause at this rate she'll blow college in the 1st week.
She's a super smart kid, no doubt.
Here's an example, she's in Varsity Orchestra. Half way through the 1st semester she's failing. How in the hell do you fail Violin?
Every Monday she has to hand in her practice card that we parents have to sign. If it goes in on Tuesday, 10 points off, Wed, 20 points off, Thursday 50 points off, by Friday you may as well not bother because it's not worth anything.
Turns out she had not handed in one card yet. Mind you this has been the protocol for the lat 4 years so it's not like she did not know.
It gets worse, they have "advisory" basically a free period where they can do what they want, go see a teacher for tutoring / extra help in a subject etc... Guess what Arden does every day for advisory? She goes to the Orchestra room WITH her instructor and practices. We have told her if she practices during advisory then the teacher needs to sign her practice card, not us since we did not witness it.
So she is doing the work, her instructor knows she is doing the work, but she was still failing because she kept forgetting to hand in a stupid piece of paper.
Holy **** you gotta be frikkin kidding me. How absolutely stupid is that.
We grounded the snot out of her.
Guess what she forgot the last couple of weeks?
So I don't think it makes an impression. She will forget something 5 minutes after I tell her.
Told her to change the cats water and add dry food this morning.
Heard her change the water then go into the pantry for the dry, heard her open the cat food bin.
Just walked through the kitchen earlier, no dry food in the cats bowl.
