My daughter...

[starfish1113]

I was thinking about this problem.

I can tell you what was a lifetime godsend for me.

Mandatory studyhall from 7:00 to 9:00 while I was a Freshman in high school. Granted, Maddie is living at home and not a boarding school, but I believe that there still may be benefit for her in instilling this concept of structured study time (or better time management).

It especially made the transition to college a breeze, allowing me to juggle a heavy course load, athletics, journalism, theatre, fraternity obligations, other organizational duties, and work.

What? No class presidency or hot, hot sex with the homecoming queen (and her minions)?? You must have just forgotten about those.

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

I was thinking about this problem.

I can tell you what was a lifetime godsend for me.

Mandatory studyhall from 7:00 to 9:00 while I was a Freshman in high school. Granted, Maddie is living at home and not a boarding school, but I believe that there still may be benefit for her in instilling this concept of structured study time (or better time management).

It especially made the transition to college a breeze, allowing me to juggle a heavy course load, athletics, journalism, theatre, fraternity obligations, other organizational duties, and work.

Mandatory Study Hall doesn't work for Maddie because she has Mock Trial from 6:30 to 9:00, three days a week. She also has quiz bowl from 2:45 to 4:00 three days a week. (She is away from home between 1:45 and 5:00 due to driving.)

Spending time in her room helped her reboot and refocus this weekend. She slept for almost 28 hours during the weekend and I took away all of her fiction, so she was forced to study math. After going through Nutshell, she realized that she hadn't picked up all of the concepts in the chapter, so she knows that she needs to go over every lesson after class.

Even though the teacher told me via email that most of the kids got A's and B's, the class got chewed out because there were only 3 A's or B's on the test and most of the grade were D's or F's. Maddie's grade wasn't the lowest at all.

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

I was thinking about this problem.

I can tell you what was a lifetime godsend for me.

Mandatory studyhall from 7:00 to 9:00 while I was a Freshman in high school. Granted, Maddie is living at home and not a boarding school, but I believe that there still may be benefit for her in instilling this concept of structured study time (or better time management).

It especially made the transition to college a breeze, allowing me to juggle a heavy course load, athletics, journalism, theatre, fraternity obligations, other organizational duties, and work.

What? No class presidency or hot, hot sex with the homecoming queen (and her minions)?? You must have just forgotten about those.

I hope that you aren't talking about Maddie, because she will not be having hot, hot sex with the homecoming queen.

[Appa23]

I was thinking about this problem.

I can tell you what was a lifetime godsend for me.

Mandatory studyhall from 7:00 to 9:00 while I was a Freshman in high school. Granted, Maddie is living at home and not a boarding school, but I believe that there still may be benefit for her in instilling this concept of structured study time (or better time management).

It especially made the transition to college a breeze, allowing me to juggle a heavy course load, athletics, journalism, theatre, fraternity obligations, other organizational duties, and work.

What? No class presidency or hot, hot sex with the homecoming queen (and her minions)?? You must have just forgotten about those.

Clearly, Fishie, you do not recall what I look like from my stint on the show.

Do you think that I changed that much from college?

[Appa23]

I was thinking about this problem.

I can tell you what was a lifetime godsend for me.

Mandatory studyhall from 7:00 to 9:00 while I was a Freshman in high school. Granted, Maddie is living at home and not a boarding school, but I believe that there still may be benefit for her in instilling this concept of structured study time (or better time management).

It especially made the transition to college a breeze, allowing me to juggle a heavy course load, athletics, journalism, theatre, fraternity obligations, other organizational duties, and work.

Mandatory Study Hall doesn't work for Maddie because she has Mock Trial from 6:30 to 9:00, three days a week. She also has quiz bowl from 2:45 to 4:00 three days a week. (She is away from home between 1:45 and 5:00 due to driving.)

Spending time in her room helped her reboot and refocus this weekend. She slept for almost 28 hours during the weekend and I took away all of her fiction, so she was forced to study math. After going through Nutshell, she realized that she hadn't picked up all of the concepts in the chapter, so she knows that she needs to go over every lesson after class.

Even though the teacher told me via email that most of the kids got A's and B's, the class got chewed out because there were only 3 A's or B's on the test and most of the grade were D's or F's. Maddie's grade wasn't the lowest at all.

Maybe Maddie already does it. I really was talking about having structured times for study. It likely would vary depending on the day, but the idea is that study times are part of her overall schedule of time management.

[peacock2121]

I was thinking about this problem.

I can tell you what was a lifetime godsend for me.

Mandatory studyhall from 7:00 to 9:00 while I was a Freshman in high school. Granted, Maddie is living at home and not a boarding school, but I believe that there still may be benefit for her in instilling this concept of structured study time (or better time management).

It especially made the transition to college a breeze, allowing me to juggle a heavy course load, athletics, journalism, theatre, fraternity obligations, other organizational duties, and work.

What? No class presidency or hot, hot sex with the homecoming queen (and her minions)?? You must have just forgotten about those.

Clearly, Fishie, you do not recall what I look like from my stint on the show.

Do you think that I changed that much from college?

Score one for HoltDad.

That was very good.

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HoltDad 1