Question
Dear John, we lived in ---- our church First Presbyterian had you as a speaker and my husband and I followed every column of yours in the (local newspaper). We moved to --- and 21 years ago used your advice on academics with our teen age children. Now one of our children, our daughter and her daughter live with us. Our g-daughter who is ten attends a public school with advanced curriculum leading to ---- Prep High here in -----. As the academic demand increases, she is becoming increasing forgetful (i.e. not using her planner to write down her assignments for ex.) her grades are falling. We followed your advice 21 yrs ago-- as I recall it-- that until the student is mature enough to take responsibility for their grades, it is the parent who will step in and take that responsibility. Now ( I am signing in as my daughter on this registration) on your site I can't find that philosophy. Can you speak to this. Perhaps I missed it. --the grandmother. p.s our middle son with whom we used that philosophy even in 12th grade, went on the earn his Ph. D in Philosophy and teach at the Honor's College at a top state university.
