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Originally Posted by MillerTime GFG
I know this is not necessarily the intent of this thread, but I could use the professional insight:
My 8 year old (soon to be 9) daughter is in grade 4 and has been struggling with some tests early on, mainly in math. After seeing the results on her first (failed) test, I went over it a few times with her before she was to retake the test this past Friday. Sure enough, she didn't do much better. Her teacher wrote on the test "Don't be lazy Alina".
So there lies the problem. Bias aside, she is a smart kid and generally does everything correct when she puts her mind to it, such as when I'm watching over her. She is literally just lazy, and doesn't care about the consequences. Part of that is because I guess there aren't really any at this point, but eventually as she gets further on, there will be. She will leave questions blank because she just doesn't want to actually try to use her brain. We've noticed it being an issue with laziness, and now so too has her teacher.
Any ideas? My thoughts are to just make her do more homework until it starts to translate into better grades. Problem is that unless she's constantly supervised, she will just goof around. And to think she's not even a teen yet...
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Just curious, and don't take this as accusatory because it may come off that way. That's not how I intend it. But, do you give her a lot of responsibilities around the house? Does she clean her own room, make her own lunch, remember to pack her own agenda and school books in the morning? Generally grade 4 and 5 kids have difficulty taking responsibility for their learning and their actions because there aren't any consequences for things not being done. They think that if they don't do it, someone else will come along and do it for them.
She's 8 now, so maybe time to give her some more responsibility. Maybe she already has a lot, I don't know your situation, just a common thing for that age is for kids to not take responsibility for their actions.
I teach Grades 5 and 6.