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Motivation….detected..maybe?
Thanks to many wonderful suggestions after my post last week, I had a few productive conversations with Alex. He clearly needed to see a pathway for himself. A concrete reason to go to college,...
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At least he’s studying….
Studyin' studyin' yeah! Online class is in session! Of course, studying can’t really happen unless there is music in his ear. So, he has my old iphone 3Gs which is now basically an Ipod touch on...
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Dear Martha – part 2 – HELP!
I think we all know 15′s academic challenges and such He’s doing better thanks to me keeping that thumb on his forehead all the time. Even nearly finished with online driver’s ed as I mentioned. Last...
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Dear Betty Lou
I’m pretty sure 15 is going to drive me to stow away on a cruise ship soon. Preferably one heading someone warm with fizzy umbrella drinks being served hourly. Probably one of the biggest issues I’ve...
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Finding motivation in new places
So clearly all these years 15 has displayed the motivation described above on the football field, but never in the classroom. And while baby steps in terms of perhaps focusing on a desired area of...
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Motivating the motivator
I’ve written a couple of posts about finding motivation for my teenager. I’ll update on that particular task shortly, but in the course of writing most recently about finding my focus again, I...
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Another One Bites The Dust
Another summer – done! Another school year begins. Here’s the status I just dropped on Facebook: First day of 11th grade! No, I didn’t take any pictures (I am lame and he wouldn’t have allowed it...
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Oct 6 – High school English still sucks
I don’t remember reading Gatsby in school, but I do remember who played him originally in a movie and this is how I picture him as I read it now! A side effect of a concussion as we have learned in...
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Graduation Day
He was up until 1:30am working on a final English assignment to turn in on the last possible day to submit work for grading (of course), but…..he did actually graduate high school. On a Friday the 13th...
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Senior!
He took pity on me since I've been doing first day of school drop offs from 1990-2013 and this was officially my LAST ONE! He was oddly in a better mood for a 1st day as well - his schedule was...
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