[Mick]

[quote author=Mick link=topic=10606.msg97897#msg97897 date=1410449934]
With my 14 year old sons starting high school, I tried to frame scholastic pursuit and achievement  in terms they could understand; e.g., "if you get A's, you'll live in that mansion with that wife, if you get B's you'll live in that house with that wife and if you get C's, you'll live under that bridge with no wife."  Seems to have worked.

I don't know. Eventually they figure out there are a lot of idiots with mansions and hot wives, and a lot of scholars with neither.
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Oh, I absolutely agree that they do.  But not at age 14.

[Mick]

[quote author=Mick link=topic=10606.msg97897#msg97897 date=1410449934]
With my 14 year old sons starting high school, I tried to frame scholastic pursuit and achievement  in terms they could understand; e.g., "if you get A's, you'll live in that mansion with that wife, if you get B's you'll live in that house with that wife and if you get C's, you'll live under that bridge with no wife."  Seems to have worked.

I don't know. Eventually they figure out there are a lot of idiots with mansions and hot wives, and a lot of scholars with neither.
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Oh, I absolutely agree that they do.  But not at age 14.