Re-evaluations

It is so hard to let our kids fail. I know the best lessons are sometimes learned this way - but it is still hard.

I could scream - I could shout, I could ground and lecture. Am I going to? No. Do you know why? She is 16 - she will be 17 in 4 months. She has been going to school since the age of 5. In 12 years she knows how to turn in homework, she knows she needs to do assignments. She is failing history and math. We are going to sit down and move to the next phase - educated planning. Demonstrating consequences. Not grounding, nothing like that. January is when you starting applying to colleges and she was wanting to graduate early. We are going to discuss how her plans are going to work with the consequences of her new grades.