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[quote=Anonymous]I am in a similar situation. I decided to issue a December Gift Challenge on 12-1-23; Kid has been purposely not turning in assignments, late to class, not showing up prepared for class, several lunch detentions. I put her in math interventions that she attends during lunch, and enrolled her in an online math academy. We have mother daughter talks frequently about feelings and write in our journals. She has been caught throwing a test away in the garbage bc she was disappointed about the grade. I had promised her a trip to a new restaurant she really wanted to go to I brought her the menu and put it on her wall for encouragement. She threw away the parent teacher notice that was in the notebook and I missed it, that was my bad.

Despite my hardest efforts, she continued to bring notes home, she is failing every class this year she is flat out not trying.

This year she is getting no electronics, no dolls. I bought her an LED alarm clock and a word game. She can earn other gifts for good behavior and performance. I didn't cancel xmas but I reduced the amt of gifts, as I set the expectations and she still did not follow through.

All I see are weak ppl blaming OP for trying to gain a handle on the childs behavior. Some of you really don't know how hard this is, the joy of xmas what about the joy of learning being responsible taking care of your things and doing your best academically what about that joy? Weak comments. OP is right to use xmas as leverage, gifts are not a given no wonder we have so many entitled ppl in our society. [/quote]

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