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How can I help my high schooler find his motivation again?
My youngest is a junior in high school (in the US) this year and has been struggling with motivation and staying on top of his work.
He graduated from 8th grade during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown and ...
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How to encourage my 5-year-daughter to become a Medical Doctor?
I have a 5-year-old daughter. She has expressed a desire to be a Medical Doctor several times. Are there games, books, something on TV she can watch that will ground this idea or give her more ...
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When to give up learning an instrument with a 6-year-old?
My daughter has been practising the violin with the Suzuki method since she was 3.5 years old and she is now 6 (so 2.5 years practising). However she's never really wanted to.
She has struggled ...
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My 14-year-old is refusing to attend any schooling, even online
I have a 14-year-old daughter who has suffered from mental health issues since puberty. She has been through 4 middle schools and several residential behavior programs. I got her enrolled in an online ...
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How to confront a young adult about his lack of motivation
Someone I know has an adult son (20 years old) with almost no motivation. Earlier this year he dropped out of his university far from home and moved back home into his parents house and enrolled at ...
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How do I get my primary-schooler to love learning?
I do not know what to do anymore with my 6 year old daughter's lack of appetite for learning.
She does not like to read anything. She would learn all the sight words and forget most of them, or can'...
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How to help a child not be afraid to struggle with things that are easy for her older brother?
We started homeschooling this year, and my four year-old daughter has been comparing herself to her six year-old brother, then acting afraid to do anything when she doesn't measure up.
For example, ...
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How to persuade lazy-to-think kids to learn mathematics?
I am teaching mathematics for kids. Some of them are so lazy in thinking. They often answer my questions without thinking. And some of them also early decide that they will be artists, dancers, ...
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How to inspire a 7 year old to accelerate reading efforts?
I have a seven year old son who is having a hard time "getting inspired" to read regularly. This is somewhat of a struggle for me as his older brother was reading Harry Potter at around his age and ...
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What are some great techniques for encouraging a reluctant reader?
My seven-year-old nephew is such a reluctant reader that despite the many teacherly suggestions I have been able to offer his mom and a lot of work with his own teachers he still just won't read. She ...
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