KADmom, I actually own that book and had forgotten about it.
LMAO at this!
I'll have to check that book out, myself. I'm hoping you get some fantastic answers to your questions here, because my DS is in nearly the same boat. He isn't failing, but he has a fine collection of C grades going, and all because of homework assignments that he can't hang onto long enough to turn them in. I keep pounding it into his head that it really stinks to do the work on time and then get points taken off because it was turned in late.
I haven't talked much with his teachers yet about it, but I am afraid I'll get a lot of "he needs to learn organization" tough love stuff. And for him, I really don't think it is likely to happen. They can teach him all the finer points of how to fly, all they want to, but in the end, he's going to remain a fish anyway.
Some of his assignments are sitting in his backpack, waiting for the football coach to bring it home tonight because he left it there during the cross-country meet last week. Along with his gear bag and his Minecraft creeper jacket. This, after he lost his coat and jacket at the end of the last school year on a three-day field trip.
