What does getting good grades boil down to? a. Being the smartest kid in the class? b. Going to the best school? c. Studying 20 hours a week? d. None of these. Of course, the answer is ‘d’. Getting good grades really boils down to being strategic. To get good grades, your teen needs to employ strategy. You would not want to head into battle without a well thought out strategy, and you sure as heck don’t want your teen to head into study-time without one either. A CRUCIAL part of a … [Read more...]
Where To Start With A Lazy Teen
As with most things, starting is the hardest part. It doesn’t matter whether it’s losing weight, starting a new project, starting a new job, or in your teen’s case, starting to give a damn about school. Old habits are hard to break. It’s not easy getting into a new routine. If your teen has been fairly useless before now about doing homework and studying for exams, then installing good study habits isn’t going to happen overnight. It will happen, but we’re going to have to start out … [Read more...]