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[quote=Anonymous]How do you know that your kid is not working like a dog already -- at just handling the day?  Are you so certain that your kid isn't putting in lots of extra effort to manage: social anxiety/disruptive environments/ toxic stress/ sensitivity to tensions in the home/ abuse from relatives/ bullying from peers/ learning disabilities (even ones we don't label)/ food cravings/ instability/ mental illness, etc.?

Seriously, I bring all this up because they test things like this by putting mice that are bred to be mellow and mice that are bred to be anxious in water where they have to "work hard" not to drown. The motivation (not drowning) is definitely compelling, but the stressed mice have a hard time managing to swim for as long as others. If your child's "performance" seems less than it should be, perhaps that is because they are having to expend a lot of effort doing something that you aren't taking notice of, and that maybe other kids don't have to expend as much effort to do.[/quote]

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