Avoid getting more involved in your son’s homework, she says, describing certain moms “who come into my office with colour-coded calendars, BlackBerries, hands-free headsets—and they wonder why their sons are so disorganized. Part of the problem is, of course, that with moms so on top of it, these sons have never been forced to develop such skills of their own.”
Never bribe him, she writes: bribery gives a value to grades, rather than learning, “and I cannot think of a faster way to promote cheating and other short-sighted behaviours.”
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