How is school affecting your child and your family?

How many hours of homework does your high schooler put in each week?

How does he or she respond to homework?

She doesn’t do any of her homework at all.

She refuses to do some of it sometimes

She is starting to resent it more and more.

She rolls her eyes at some of the assignments, but still does it.

She enjoys doing a great job on her homework

Does he/she procrastinate?

She used to keep up with it but now she has an impossible backlog and her teachers are noticing.

She tries to keep to a schedule but it builds up until she has a huge backlog of work on the weekends.

No, she has a schedule and gets it done as soon after the assignment is given as she can.

How many AP or college-level classes does your high schooler take?

5-6

3-4

1-2

She can't take any yet.

What are your hopes for your child after high school?

It’s vital that my child get a degree from the best possible college.

The most important thing is that the college is a good fit for her.

It’s not important to me if she goes to college or not.

What are your child’s hopes?

The same as mine -- to work as hard as possible, to secure the best possible future.

We disagree but she understands why I want her to get the best grades she can.

She is having doubts about her future, and it’s getting hard for her to do the work.

She seems to have lost her ambition for her future.

Do those hopes match up with his/her attitude and success with academic work?

Judging from her attitude now, she is going to be well-prepared for college.

She doesn’t love the work now, but college will be better because she’ll be studying what she loves.

Her difficulty with the workload is making me think she isn’t going to thrive in college.

How much sleep does your child get, generally? (9.5 hours is recommended for adolescents.)

Most nights he gets on or close to the recommended amount

Weekday nights he gets 7-8 hours, and more on weekends

Weekday nights he gets 5-6 hours, and more on weekends.

Weekday nights he gets 3-5 hours, and more on weekends.

Are you finding it harder than usual to communicate with them?

No, we talk all the time and she shares her thoughts with me.

She likes her privacy but is willing to talk about what’s going on.

I am getting less information from her lately, about her private life and her studies.

I can't’ get her to talk at all.

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