My daughter brought home her progress report she is failing in keyboarding. what should i do?

Question

she is only in the 7th grade. she has a boyfriend and a phone. enough said!

what should i take away? what should i do? she is on the track team too.

Answer 1

welll.... keyboarding... its such a light subject, i dontthink she should be punished for failing, unless its her attendance or attitude. maybe get her to practice at home. look on google for some keyboarding excersizes if u can find any.

Answer 2

Take away her phone. And no internet for her. Help her practice keyboarding. It is not that difficult and she should not be failing. If this doesn't work, talk to her teacher.

Answer 3

The ability to use a keyboard is central to a higher education in today's academia... Take the phone away until she improves.. by PRACTICING A LOT... and then take the boyfriend if that doesn't work.

Answer 4

ok. heres what you should do from my (a seventh grader with a bf and a phone) point of view:

middle school is middle school. i mean you DEFFINENTALLY should at least talk to her about it, but i mean keyboarding? oh well. if it is important to you, get her a mentor, or a tutor. or even better, to show her you really cared, you should sit down and help her out. dont take her phone away. that will just make her want to rebel even more. the best thing you can do is talk to her about her grades and life. my mom, well, never talks to me. shes always working, never home. i havnt told her about my bf cuz we're not close, so make sure that u guys are close and spend time doing things she likes to do (IE shopping). let her have a BF. now a days, its hecka fun to have our boy-toys. i know how much that will scare you, but trust your daughter.

so mainly, you be her tutor. make her your priority, but dont spoil her. thats what every daughter should have, a mom who knows what a daughter needs, but not wants.

Answer 5

i would let her her cellphpne, but moniter. why is she failing if she is not a fast typer well she can practice typing everyday for an hour till grade improves. (use rewards otherwise this will be messy)

Also what 7 grader has a serious boyfriend. 7th grade thats 13. Way too young. Please tell me they don't go on dates. Just too young. I was 16 when i had a boyfirend.

Answer 6

Christ taking away her phone or something isn't going to help anyone. Get her to practice at home or something, download a program off the internet.

Answer 7

The best thing to do would probably be to tighten up your standards. Having a boyfriend when your are in grade 7 isn't very... Normal. It will affect her later on in her studies and will just keep getting her obsessed over boyfriends and she wont focus on her studies.

Answer 8

maybe it's not her thing-- tell her to pass it or pick something else that interests her

Answer 9

I don't know about your school but the one my sister goes to won't allow them to compete in athletics if they are failing a class.

Cell phone and grounded ( no contact with boyfriend or friends, just family stuff) at home until the grade comes up is what I would do.

Answer 10

Take away the phone before the boyfriend.  Taking away the boyfriend will really make her resent you.  She doesn't need a phone anyway.  Limit her time with the boyfriend until the grade comes up though.  There's no excuse for failing keyboarding.  That's a super easy class.

Answer 11

I would tell her that you will be keeping in touch with her teachers, and if her grades continue to drop she will have to stop seeing her boyfriend and have her phone taken away until she can raise her grades again.  I would give it a week or two and then follow through with the punishments.

Good luck!!

Answer 12

figure out Y she is failing u obvisously have a comp so maybe u can help her

Answer 13

make her practice. i was amazing at keyboarding in third grade as the result of my parents giving me a computer program to practice it. it's pretty cheap and it helps a LOT.

my parents would disown me if i were failing anything or getting a D.

Answer 14

I wouldn't take away anything, personally. As someone who has taken one of these keyboarding classes in middle school, I know the class doesn't mean much. I mean, I know keyboarding is important in this day and age, but still. For us, this was a term long elective, though. Some people just weren't good at it. It didn't help me at all. Maybe you could offer to reward her for every 5 or ten points it goes up, or something. Honestly, these minors didn't mean all that much to me, but I don't know if hers is a major course. If it is, I might be a little more strict about the grade, and maybe make her earn back privileges by bringing up her grade.

Answer 15

Good luck I had to drop keyboarding in college so it wouldnt affect my GPA Talk to the teacher to see if theres anything extra she can do just so you know  keyboarding requires that you be able to type with the proper finger on a certain key without looking. Are her other grades still up? Let it be!! Don't discourage her from her main courses.

Answer 16

Do you mean keyboarding on a piano or computer? But she should practise more often. Dont make her do 2 hrs. at the weekend. 20 mins. a day is musch better as it teaches the muscles to remeber movements and things alike. Thats how I learned drums and harmonica. Encourage her to use a full size keyboard for maximum manuverbillity and not to rush.

Loli: Thats 11-12, NOT 13.

Dont Blame Me: You dont know what your talking about so let me tell you as i'm 4 years older than you and I KNOW what i'm talking about.

I'm going backwards btw.

Year 12- 18 and 17, Year 11-17 and 16, Year 10-16 and 15, Year 9-15 and 14, Year 8 13-12, Year 7 12-11, Year 6 11-10, Year 5- 10-9, Year 4 9-8, Year 3 8-7, Year 2 7-6 and Finally Year 1 6-5. There are some things b4 that but I cant be botherd cos its like 12:34 AM.

If you were in year 5  you would be 3-4 years to young to be on here so you are breaking the rules.