I noticed the use of "lazy" in the other thread as well and it didn't make sense to me in relation to our struggle.
Clearly our son acts lazily at times, or rather he is behaving in a lazy fashion because he is uninterested in whatever is going 'round him at the moment.
(And really, in our situation, few would see him in action and say he's being lazy.)
Here's one definition of lazy: "Unwilling to do work or make an effort."
In general, he generally does whatever is asked of him at school without complaint (home is a whole different story). The issue for us is that he is rarely required to "make an effort" -- he is unchallenged.
I want his teachers to recognize that he can do so much more than what they are asking him to do, and that the longer it takes for him to realize what a real challenge is, the harder it will be to break the habit of enjoying only that which comes easily.
