The Grades Are In—Why Your Teen Still Isn’t Motivated (And What to Do About It)

The school year is underway, test results are posted, and here you are again…,  …bracing for a report card that’s not what you’d hoped for. The same patterns are showing up— 👎🏻your teen is still struggling to get up on time 👎🏻assignments are missing 👎🏻 and the emails from teachers about poor attendance and grades […]

My teen avoids ALL responsibility!

ARGH!! Not only are you annoyed and angry at your teen’s lack of motivation, effort and constantly avoiding basic responsibility, you’re worried you’re going to be supporting them their whole life because they’re failing to launch. Your feelings are real and normal!! I thought them too while raising my sons and it was hard to […]

Motivation was never the problem

I’m getting on my soapbox… I was the student that went from award winning and seemingly having it all together with straight A’s, to F’S and almost failing out. I stopped doing homework, I stopped showing up to class, I just plain quit. Although it appeared to be defiance, there was so much more below […]