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Posted: Jan 07 2007 at 6:46am | IP Logged Quote Leonie
We are re-organizing our record keeping for 2007 and along my internet search for ideas, I found the following snippet. Thought I'd share.

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<<<<<This is a good option for the motivated teen, or for the early teen who seems to be causing a bit of conflict over his schoolwork. Sometimes, removing face-to-face contact over assignments for a while can be a good thing for both parties.

Simply put the young person's assignments in an email, and send them the night before each school day. Give choices of how to do the assignment (photo essay? written report? web page?), if possible, and then give them a bit of room.

When my one son was thirteen, we had a deal that, if he completed his schoolwork the night before, he could stay in bed as late as he liked the next day. He often took me up on that, and the system worked very well for a long while.>>>>

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Posted: Jan 20 2007 at 7:08am | IP Logged Quote Erin
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I could see this really working. The other day I wanted dd to look at a blog, I was wanting her to consider one, I finally got a response when I emailed her

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We did this with Michael for awhile. I cc'd dh on everything and that way he could keep tabs and he could ask about certain things. Email and Starbucks pretty much dominated his 14yo year. He took assignments in a backpack to Starbucks and did them there.

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Posted: Jan 20 2007 at 4:37pm | IP Logged Quote Leonie
Erin, I am always emailing blogs or sites to my kids....

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