Help! My DS is not motivated.

[hashroop]

Dear Haneyi


thank you for your kind advise…much appreciated. Will monitor him closely and hope pulls up his socks. He didnt do quite well in his last exams

[jen.03343895]

Another thing is that you could motivate him by helping him to set a target.


For example, I guess that he loves gaming. Therefore, you could probably show him some courses in the polytechnic which teaches gaming and its creations, such as Diploma in Games Design & Development by Singapore Polytechnic. Tell him that these courses required good grades to get in and if he wanted these courses, he must work double hard.

These can be quite a good method. This is because that what happened to many of my friends. They generally do not like studying and scored rather badly. However, after the school brings them to polytechnic open houses, they realized that by continuing not to study, they could not enter into their dream courses. As a result, they work hard enough and most of the time do get their desire result.

[hashroop]

hi Jen thx…actually thats the course that he’s interested in.Coincendatally, their sch brougt them to Temasek Poly just yesterday and he was so thrilled to learn such a course being offered.


Im trying to get him out of his lazy attitude. He knows his dreams but expect them to just drop into his laps without thriving… sigh:(

[mdmlow]

Sit down and have a heart to heart talk with hi explaining to him the importance.

[POA Teacher]

Your son is a typical teenager.


I tutor mainly Sec 4 and 5 students. Most of them are like your son, especially 4N kids. (But I confess I was not deligent too when I was their age :oops: ).
Some of them don't \"wake up\" until a few months before the N lvls. (I've had 4N students who began tuition only in June/ July with single-digit marks for their mid-year SA).
Btw, nagging doesn't work on them.
Hopefully your son will change soon.

[mummy so kiasu]

hashroop:

Dear Haneyi


thank you for your kind advise..much appreciated. Will monitor him closely and hope pulls up his socks. He didnt do quite well in his last exams

I agree with haneyi. If the child is not motivated, then tuition will not make much different. Try to talk to him & find how to motivate him. You can either read out on such topics & send him to a motivation camp.

[kiasu_student]

Hi, the most important thing is to let your DS understand how interesting n fascinating a subject such as Math and Sci can be which I am very interested in. I am not very interested in Sci in P3 but since I explore further how fascinating can waves of physics and biology can be, I like Sci and got A star in PSLE. Try develop interest.