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[quote=Anonymous]Agree with pp to take the long view. Therapy helped both of my boys who were very similar at that age. (Family therapy helped me too, it enabled me to back off a bit, instead of getting wrapped up in the situation and trying to control it.) Working on the mental health issues has to come first. College visits would not have done my kids any good at that point, they just didn't have the capability to look ahead in life. We did keep my particularly high standardized test scorer in the most rigorous classes because he was going to make the same grade regardless of the level of the class. (He understood everything but wouldn't turn in his work.) It took a while for him to care -- he received academic warnings and C's as a first year high school student. He ended up with A's in post-calculus work as a senior and like the pp, he majors in physics in college. [/quote]
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