Report cards in

We were waiting to see what would happen with Trevor's grades. Diana is pretty well motivated and does what she's supposed to in school, so we don't worry as much about her stuff. Connor is not able to be graded with the rest of his class, so he's got more of a progress report (showing improvement - all good).

Trevor will be a Senior in High School next year. He is fully capable of A's, if he can stay focussed & get organized. I know that sounds like most teens, but all the rest of us have that nagging feeling when we know we're getting behind. Most of us have had the anxiety nightmare when we're getting close to a deadline, only to wake up and find we still have enough time to do it.

Trevor doesn't have that. And he also doesn't just automatically check the board to see what's coming up. In fact, most of the time he's too far gone before he even knows he's missing something. Then you only get 1/2 credit for a late assignment. Needless to say, this messes up his grades pretty badly.

So we require B's or A's. It should be A's, but we'll let him get B's.

Which is why we were very upset with 2 C's on his 3rd quarter report card. Which is why we threatened him with working at an Elder Care facility as a volunteer (we made it sound like his job would be cleaning people's messes in the bathroom). Which is why he managed to bring both those C's up to B's again.

Did he learn his lesson? Umm... no. He just knows he can pull himself out if he works hard enough. His MO is doing the least he can get away with at any given time. It's a long, hard road teaching him to do it right the first time saves him all kinds of trouble later.

Eventually this has to sink in, right? Right??????

:)