Getting a pre-teen to FOCUS

[frankiebleyes]

Hmm! Both of my sons did well in school but at age 12 the oldest developed problems that we eventually figured out was dsylexia. His verbal and communication skills, including memory, were so highly tuned that it took the work in six and seven grades for us to figure out there was a problem when his grades dropped. We went a half a year, spoke with the local college and had him tested (he was dsylexia). Probably misspelled that, but you get the point.

Our youngest was 13 when he developed short term memory problems with school, unfortunately in his case they thought it was ADHD, but was actually bipolar.

The point here is most likely she is just hitting puberty and being perfectly normal and lazy, but maybe she has a problem that should be looked for.

Both of my sons graduated from high school in the top 5% of their class. Don't give up on her but consider checking into problems that might exist.

Best of luck.