Hoping that a few of you on here have some experience of this and have some suggestions! My DS is desperately unmotivated and in fact very hostile towards revision and schoolwork - he seems happy enough at school but when it comes to homework, and revision in particular (he is supposed to be revising for mocks in early November) it is like getting blood out of a stone to get him to sit down and do anything.
We have endless circular conversations along the lines of 'why do I have to do English? Why do I have to study poetry? I'm never going to read another poem again' etc etc (then apply this to multiple other subjects - he really only likes computer science). I am realising that trying to reason with him/explain (transferrable skills etc, learning how to analyse, form an argument, etc) is totally pointless, it just goes in one ear and out the other.
I feel I need to adopt a different tack as I can't bear how I'm turning into such a nagging parent always on at him to work. He needs to take responsibility for it himself, create his own revision timetable etc, I think, but I'm just terrified he'll just balls it all up. Perhaps he needs to really fail his mocks to then realise he's got to pull his socks up.
But it's SO hard when it's such a constant battle with someone who thinks it's all pointless and seems to hate most subjects so much :(
Any advice or experiences shared would be so welcome! Thank you ...