Why children underachieve and what to do about it

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New PF Quantity: 1. New Softcover Quantity: 3. New Paperback Quantity: 1. Chiron Media Wallingford, United Kingdom. Underachievers lack the ability to persevere even when they want to do well. Emotionally healthy individuals have, as distinguished clinical psychologist Michael D.

Whitley describes, two great powers at their disposal: the power to love and the power to work. By contrast, underachievers lack emotional health when it comes to working. In other words, kids who avoid accountability get trapped in patterns of victimhood and boredom.

Are you seeing a theme here? I know that every person reading this can in some way relate to these heartbreaking patterns—you may recognize yourself or someone you love. What can we do? It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

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Previous Next. Why praise and consequences can both backfire Praise for hard work can actually feel threatening to an underachiever. Remain positive. They take our cues without realizing it. Think of it as your secret superpower. Your positivity is your shared foundation, identity, and hope. Show them who you are; show them who you are striving to be.

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