<p>What “silent treatment” were you referring to?</p>
<p>Post #66 mentioned the silent treatment.</p>
<p>I told my son I would give him a little ‘slack’ when it came to his homework so he can have time to apply for scholarships, etc. But at the same time I told him I wasn’t giving him a free ride but he needed to keep his grades up.</p>
<p>I don’t recommend the silent treatment. I just recommend you do your honest best and finish strong. It’s just a few more months. You have this summer to let loose.</p>
<p>Now, that being said, I was NEVER for my kids studying every waking minute and never socializing and never going to the movies and never hanging out with friends. I like a balanced lifestyle. I think that’s healthy.</p>
<p>If that’s the kind of crazy life you’ve been living, then I’m sorry, OP. If you can honestly say your whole life is school, study, sleep and eat, then I’m sorry.</p>
<p>Always do what’s right, no matter who is watching…or not. ;)</p>
<p>I always thought senioritis was more of an April/May activity – that’s when I thought the “decline” started. Take some “mental health” days, throw in Senior Skip Day, relax a bit on the homework, final exam exemptions (except for AP of course), senior activities, etc. Purposefully starting it at the very beginning of second semester is a bit much!</p>
<p>Don’t put in EFFORT to let your grades drop, the whole idea is, if they do, it’s not the end of the world. It seems like this whole argument with your parents is requiring a lot of effort for something that had just been naturally occuring for years until someone decided to slap a term on it.</p>
<p>With respect to the timing of senioritis, I can clearly remember my now-undergraduate daughter coming home from her last senior mid-term, putting her feet on the coffee table, and announcing, “Well, I’m a second-semester senior now.” As if to say, “Let the slacking begin!”</p>
<p>On the other hand, the magnitude of her planned senioritis was pretty small. As I recall, it boiled down to, “I no longer care whether I get an A or a B in Statistics.”</p>
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