Author(s): Adam Price

Parenting

If you can't find the motivation to do your homework and engage in school, this book will help. It will also involve your parents, so that you'll be on the same page (literally) and put an end to the turmoil, badgering, and fighting about grades once and for all. You're not lazy or apathetic! Dr. Price knows that you do care about school, much more than is apparent, but underperform for many reasons. It could be a lack of confidence, fear of failure, or maybe it's all about pushing back on the pressure "to succeed" (and get into "a good college"). Avoidance works like magic to make your bad feelings about school disappear, but over the long run it does more harm than good. In fact, it may be stressing you out more than you realize. But you don't have to go down that road. This deeply researched, user-friendly, and activity-oriented workbook draws6 on thirty years of clinical practice. As Dr. Price likes to say, both teens like you and your parents co-wrote the book. Each chapter delivers its message through exercises, questionnaires, and stories about other teens that will hit close to home-no punches pulled. The aim is clear: to help you reassess your strategy of disengagement and overcome the obstacles that are keeping you from engaging with schoolwork. Here you'll find the tools you need to take charge of your grades and, more importantly, your life. Getting control of your academic performance will have a powerful knock-on effect on your self-confidence and ability to be more independent; you'll feel more in charge, both at school and at home. It'll also improve your relationship with your parents, a win-win for everyone! Look for the companion book He's Not Lazy. Book jacket.