Category Dawdler

  • My 15 year old is seriously going to drive me NUTS! She just lollygags around....duhduhntduhduhntduhduhnt........She is in 9th grade. We are going to have to re-do 9th AGAIN next year, because half of her subjects are 7th grade. Math, science, Grammar....hmm. That's more than half. I gave her some work to do yesterday, it never got done. So here I am running late today....

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  • My youngest daughter is a dawdler. She can turn a 15 minute assignment into an hour long event. I've tried incentives, I've tried punishment, I've tried talking to her patiently about why she needs to work, and I have tried absolutely everything I can think of. I had decided to try and break up larger assignments into segments to make it easier for her ...

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  • Day two of school is when the rubber hits the road at our house (day one is more of introduction, glossary reading, etc.) I addressed my daughter's pokiness. The first thing I did ... I took away the music she prefers to listen to. She likes gaming music which I have concluded might be a distraction to her mind since it reminds her of games.

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