When you aren’t looking over his shoulder, why does your child do what he does?

And are you glad about that choice?   Do you see intrinsic motivation?  This good-choice-inside-coming-out means your child is “in-the-flow”.

You know that feeling:  when you are doing something you love and time stands still.

Here is John at school happy and smiling because “he did a good job” (that sentence he created without prompts).

Would NOT have occurred mere months ago.  The markers would have been flying across the room instead.

So, sharing this with you I hope encourages you to be consistent in all you do for your child’s learning.  Continue to work with your team on finding what your child loves to do.  Dance joyously in your heart if they are motivated by and take pride in what they do.

Then use that shamelessly and wisely to help your children develop skills they can keep and use:  Achievement because it makes them happy inside.

And share with other parents, because stuff always changes.

As my neighbor Helene told me her mom always said, “It’s a wonderful life if you just don’t weaken.”

No one is stronger than our kids who hold up against learning differences.  We can help them find the joy in their motivation.