Ok. Parents of teenage overachievers (or former teenage overachievers). Maggie is freaking out over a couple of bad math grades shes received this week. She is a straight A student and is panicking because these grades might affect her A in math. We recently had a talk where I told her that I did not expect straight As from her and that she needed to quit putting so much pressure on herself to maintain the A average she has. What I require of her as a parent is for her to do her best but that its understood AND acceptable to me (and really, should be to her as well) that there are times when she is not going to give it her best. Where she is going to make mistakes and have brain farts and have days where her concentration is not so hot. This was a talk we had on Tuesday. This morning, I received a text from her where she said she was freaking out because she got a couple of more bad grades. Apparently our talk didnt do much to calm her down. Ive instructed her to go and talk to her math teacher about the problems she missed and to try to figure out if its simple mistakes or if she truly isnt grasping the lessons. If shes having a hard time understanding, Ive told her she needs to talk to the teacher about tutoring. If its simple mistakes, I dont know what to do about that. Thats something that has to come from her. I guess what I need is advice on how to handle the panicking over the few bad grades and her feelings of failure as well as advice on how to solve the issue of making simple mistakes (meaning she grasps the concept but forgets to do a negative sign or multiplies when shes supposed to divide, etc....). Thanks!
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:36:25 +0000
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