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[quote=Anonymous]I have two kids. One who thrived and one who is failure to thrive. The difference? Early intervention and sustained efforts. In time, with sustained effort of what you're doing, they will mature and see the light. It took our family 2 years to see the change, but we've finally made it there.

I wrote a similar post when DS was in 8th grade. Did really well in school, very smart, but put in little effort and struggled with EF. He had no study skills and really struggled to "start". I knew that one day this could be their downfall from personal experience so I stayed the course and tried not to get discouraged when I didn't see immediate growth.

In 9th grade we moved them to a school setting where everyone was a high achiever and the bar was raised significantly. We didn't give him the middling option and because of the new environment, he adopted the good habits that his peers shared which reinforced what we had been working on for the past few years. Positive peer pressure and reinforcement from people outside of the family really made the light bulb go off in terms of discovering that intrinsic motivation. [/quote]

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