Motivating a Child Who Says “I Don’t Care”
Posted in Guest Mom, Mothers Perspective on February 23rd, 2012 by kidtelligent@gmail.com – Be the first to comment“I don’t care.” Those three words can fill a parent with dread and frustration when spoken by their seemingly unmotivated or underachieving pre-teen or teenager, especially when it relates to something as important as education. In first of a two part series by James Lehman, MSW entitled “Motivation Underachievers Part I: When Your Child Says ‘I Don’t Care’” , Lehman says that the problem isn’t actually that the child is unmotivated, it is that the child is “motivated to resist, withdraw, and under-perform” instead of the alternative. In essence, the child is motivated to do nothing, and he or she puts a lot of energy into doing just that: nothing.