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[quote=Anonymous]Wow, that's a tough situation.

I think you have two specific issues plus an attitude problem to address.

I can't do anything about my kids' attitudes -- they can feel and think how they want and there's no real way to change that -- but actions are a different story.

Grades below C are not acceptable in our home. The phone and probably many other privileges would be gone, and she would be having supervised study hall at home each night to at least get her to the lowest level of acceptable grade in all of her courses. We would help her either start using better study habits, relearn the material from us if she was confused, or get evaluated for learning challenges if she was still struggling and we couldn't figure out how to help.

Being completely aimless and unproductive with their time is also unacceptable for our kids. They need a plan for 1-3 activities outside of the home that they would like to participate in on a regular basis. They can pick, subject to our approval for cost, logistics, and appropriateness of the activity. We will provided advice if asked or if they seem stuck. At her age, the transition to adulthood is only 2-3 years away so she needs some sort of plan with short, intermediate, and long term goals in order to reach it. At this point, failure to plan is planning to fail. We would sit down with her and help her figure out what she wants to do and how to accomplish it.[/quote]

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