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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would try family therapy--something changed in 8th grade. You probably shouldn't push so hard, and she's probably reacting to that. You need to see your daughter as her own person and not just a reflection of you.[/quote] OP here. Nothing traumatic happened at home. As far as I remember nothing major happened at school either. I do remember a time when we were having a heated discussion about her grades and her performance and she started crying and said " I refuse to be one of those girls that cry in class when they receive a poor grade and I'm not going to spend all my time studying to get A's!" It appears that there was a lot of pressure during that time as classmates tried to get into private schools and other selective HS, and it was at that point where she decided she was not going to be "that girl". So instead she because a student that tried to balance academics and fun.[/quote] I think it's fine to level with her say that based on what her plans are for college, she still needs to have a GPA of x.xx and have certain distribution requirements, (Including the dreaded language requirements) and that sort of grades/scores she can expect to get into some colleges and not others. You can point out that someday she might regret not setting her sights higher but if she's made up her mind, so be it. There's a reason why Ivy Leagues have a 9-15% acceptance rate, and that's the people who even wanted to go to those kinds of schools. [/quote]
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