When my sons get like this I have a check list

Sleep, nutrition, exercise (significant), brain work, personal goals, contribution/responsibility to family life, fun time/one on one time with either parent

If I have been or kids have been slacking in one or more of these areas we work on fixing it.

We might teach them a new household chore and make them responsible or find a new goal for them to work on achieving or study a topic that they are interested in like hurricanes or a person from history.

Also I have in the past required the hour after lunch to be quite time for the entire house no electronics ( other than soft music) reading, napping, writing, in your own space...because we are all home during the summer and we all need alone time.


...reading is pleasure, not just something teachers make you do in school.~B. Cleary