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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fucking stand over him and put his nose to the grindstone.

NO other fun until his grades improve. No TV, no phone, no internet, no sports, no friends.[/quote]

My parents tried this with my brother. Now he's an adult, has moved to the other side of the country, and has as little to do with them as possible. [/quote]

But he didn't flunk out of school, right?

As a parent, if I have to be strict so that he succeeds in life, and he decides to hate me for it forever, so be it.[/quote]

No, but he did have undiagnosed depression and wound up engaging in substance abuse to self-medicate. He attempted suicide twice. He's doing well now at 30 but could easily not have survived that long. My parents missed the depression forest for the GPA trees, so to speak, and didn't handle it well. Being a martinet is not the only answer, nor necessarily the best. From your later posts, you should be way beyond worrying about his academics at this point. [/quote]

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