Help Your Teenager Succeed at School: A Parent's Guide

here are two universally known truths:
1. Smart kids work well.
2. You can't change people.

The first one is incorrect. It isn't the smart kids who work well, it is the kids who work well who are smart. Intelligence and diligence are not quantities fixed at birth. They can both be very considerably enhanced.

The second one is right; you can't change people. But what you can do is change the environment and the systems that sustain the environment. You then allow people to exist in a different, ...