Thanks Nik, That makes a lot of sense. What happened with your DD to turn things around?
What happened was I found this forum! lol. Short story is that I had her tested: VCI 141, PO 119, WM 102 and PS 105. She was diagnosed as ADD inattentive and she is now on ADD meds which she said made a big difference from day one.
Long story: My DD was already reading at a college level in 3rd grade and she just absorbed math, music, languages and science on her own at home so I kinda saw school as little more than free babysitting and a chance for social interaction. I briefly tried rewards and punishments for grades to appease her teachers but that had no effect, she made 100's on tests and zeros on assignments across the board for years. I sympathized with her not wanting to waste time on homework since she already knew all of the material so I let it go...I figured eventually she would want something badly enough to pull up her socks and work for it but then that day came at 17 and it became apparent that she couldn't pull up her socks. We had visited her dream college, she fell in love with it and verbalized very articulately to everyone who would listen all of the reasons she wanted to go there, but when it came time to write them down for the admissions essay she just literally couldn't do it. She did finally sit down and knock out a great essay at 4 am on the last possible day but it took 3 months of mentally working on it.
Now that she is on the meds, she is writing up a storm, all the essays, songs, poetry etc that have been churning around upstairs are now flowing freely onto the paper, it's nothing short of a miracle. And I was probably the most anti-med person on earth before this.
Your DS's scores aren't as far apart as my DD's so he may have different issues but at least you are on top of it early enough to stave off the road to depression that my DD went down. (She's happy now and all is right with the world at last
. I wish it hadn't taken so long for me to wake up!
