My daughter has always been "the perfect child". And I'm afraid my telling her so may have set up a fear of failure for her. She is a very intelligent child but she makes horrible grades. I keep telling her how important good grades are for her future and she says that she gets it. In fact, she has an opportunity to go to Peru in June with the Girl Scouts, but it's contingent on her having a 3.0 GPA. She really wants to go and I see her trying, yet when she misses a day of school, it seems almost impossible for her to make up the work that she's missed. I see her trying, yet half of her grades are D's from work not turned in. It seems to me that maybe she just is not trying so hard so that when she has to hear the bad news that she can't go to Peru, she can say "well, I didn't really want to go that badly anyway".
Thanks in advance for your feedback.
2007-03-09
05:43:52
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comet girl...DUCK!
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