- Ezra
- What can we do to help him find a reason to care about life?
- Maybe it will help to share the comment Sister Hoopes made yesterday while we were visiting about how students who get involved in something—band, drama, whatever—enjoy school much more and engage with all their classes better.
- Whether or not sharing it will help, it validates what Laura and I are trying to start with the younger kids.
- How can we apply it over the summer?
- All the kids/parenting overall
- Same issues more generally
- None of them have any drive and we simply try to slake their thirst for media while ringing some concessions from them.
- I feel frustrated/blocked
- Laura
- The root problem underpinning all of this is Laura’s limitations combined with her lack of momentum.
- As a family we don’t have the ability to run faster than she does.
- As severely underdeveloped children the kids will not discover anything better than what she models/allows and they will be slow to adopt any positive change she tries to introduce.
- I have the impulse to shock them out of their stasis but doing that “to” Laura is parenting her and getting her on board with that approach seems impossible.
- We have 90 minutes to talk on our way to the Manti temple this afternoon and again on our way back.
- I need to share/explain my impulse to take everything away from the kids and get her to think about it and share her perspective.
- I also want to help her recognize her efforts in a more accurate light as well as help her realize more accurately what she is actually capable of. She has actual limitations but she is underutilizing her capacity because she’s afraid to try and fail.
- I feel a glimmer of hope
Action Items
- Use the drive to Manti to talk about the family and the summer.
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