We've been working with my daughter on anger and worry, and since she's such a reader we found her some books that might help. They seem really good but she's not too excited about reading them. No big surprise since she generally doesn't want to do the things we ask…
We were so discouraged about my daughter and schoolwork last night. It had not been a good day and we were feeling really defeated. This morning we had an idea. Maybe my daughter would be more willing to do her schoolwork if she had her own place to do it.…
My daughter's teachers have been suggesting that we give her the opportunity to choose her own schoolwork as a way of making her more willing to engage with school. We've been trying to give her a half dozen or so choices in a variety of subjects each morning in the…
All that optimism from yesterday has pretty much vanished today. I realize that things take time, but today was a disaster. We followed the advice of our daughter's teachers and counselors and gave her a 'menu' of possible schoolwork to do today, ranging from academic exercises to things like art…