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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have an 8yo. I wouldntsay she is resistant in general but definitely fights me on academic stuff. We did the DL in the spring and it was awful, she didn’t learn anything and we both disliked being tied to the laptop at set times every day. I have pulled out of MCPS and will homeschool the next school year. I am outsourcing math twice a week ( Mathnasium) and have teemed you with another mom to help each other out. [b]Over the summer I have found the work gets done better if I wrote out a clear list that she can cross out as she goes. [/b]We have a white board in the playroom we can both write on. I have told her if she gets it all done by x time we can do y in the afternoon as an incentive. I am contemplating offering cold hard cash for reading starting in Sept. I will do reading comprehension workbooks with her but also expect her to read to herself for 30 mins. I’m thinking for every book she finishes I’ll give her a dollar or something .... so she wants to read every day. [/quote]

I'm the mom with the TL/DR post above and the bolded is so true for my kid.  He's a smart 10 year old, but somehow he seems to think that if it's typed up on a list then it's official and it's not worth it to argue.  That's true even though he sees me typing the list.  It's amazing how well this single strategy works.  [/quote]

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