ds1 is ridiculously bright, but also incredibly lazy when it comes to school work
He finds it almost impossible to sit down and concentrate and has got prevarication down to a fine art ...
Our relationship is really suffering as I've become the enforcer/nagger (and it's all been me as dh is away a lot for work)
We've come to the conclusion that unless ds wants to work, nothing I say or do is going to make him so I'm going to tell him once to do something but then let him get on with it and deal with the consequences himself.
All fine in theory .... but it's very hard in practice!! On Sunday he allegedly spent 5 hours making notes for his GCSE History controlled assessment this week and produced a grand total of 3 sentences .... he managed to go on Facebook and YouTube very successfully though which meant that he had to spend all last night on it and not do his maths which was already late and was supposed to be in today - this morning we got a letter from his head of year saying that he had a detention for missing registration because he'd stayed in the library finishing off yet another piece of homework
arghhh how can someone so smart be so monumentally stupid??
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basildonbond · 16/10/2012 16:28
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