Here are some tips you can follow if you find your high school senior is suffering from senioritis:
Talk to your teen. Explain that you understand their senioritis but you have expectations about your their school work and they need to complete it with their usually efforts and obtaining their usual grades.
Remind your teen of their goals for school and their future. Sometimes it just takes a reality check.
Ask your teen what they feel they can do to dwarf their senioritis. Often teens who have senioritis can tell you exactly what they need and are more apt to do what they are asked when they have help come up with the solution. Be prepared offer a compromise when discussing what your teen needs to do.
If necessary, begin checking up on your teen. But, be very clear about how you are going to begin to follow through with checking up on them and how they can take over the reins again by being responsible for their school work and attending classes.
Do not take senior privileges as a consequence. While I will always agree that privileges are based on responsibility, taking away special events that your teen has been waiting for all of their school life – like graduation parties and prom – are really too important to your teen’s future wellness to use for discipline in the here and now.
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