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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son, unfortunately, has a friend like this. They are on the same soccer team. According to his mom, soccer and video games are the only two things he does.

She's always holding her breath each school year at the very end to see if he'll pass or fail. He's so far skirted through and is now in the 11th grade. He has zero ambition according to her. He does the bare minimum and that's it. When they ground him and take away electronics, he sleeps. He does no chores and neither parent can make him do anything. Sad situation.

He's had 3 jobs and been fired at all 3 within weeks of starting due to his laziness and terrible personality. [/quote]

First off, soccer is a super intense sport and commitment. If he's good at soccer, then he's not completely lazy.

Two, they're not making life uncomfortable enough for him if they're just letting him get away with sleeping all day. He'd be on a schedule that I dictate and he wouldn't like it and he'd have to get a wake-up call. If your first punishment isn't effective at shaking your child out of their lull, you need to keep trying others until he gets uncomfortable enough with his reality to do something different.[/quote]

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