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[quote=Anonymous]In response to how to get him to [i]care[/i] about his grades, what about:
- exploring any career aspirations he may have, with an emphasis on what sort of education he needs in order to enter the field. If his desired career or category of careers requires a college degree, take a look at a few universities he may be interested in and show him what courses, grades, and test scores they require for admission. Try to get him to make that his goal.
- tying his grades to his privileges or ability to have a social life. Decide what you think is reasonable for grades he could be getting with what you consider an appropriate level of effort, and if he doesn't reach that then he obviously needs to spend more time on schoolwork and less time on secondary priorities.
- Like other posters mentioned, monetary incentives. How many of us who are employed would be motivated to put in as much time and effort at our jobs as we currently do if they were volunteer positions with no paycheck?
- This probably won't work until he's in high school (next year?), but we told our girls that a condition of being allowed to get their learner's permits at the correct age was a cumulative high school GPA at or above the level required for our car insurance's good student discount, and continued permission to use the car was tied to acceptable grades

Unfortunately I have no advice for how to [i]help him achieve [/i] better grades; it sounds like some of the suggestions from PPs may be helpful. [/quote]

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