A child can be unmotivated by various causes as we saw in the previous article. Let's take a closer look at these circumstances and how to deal with the best solution. Something must be very clear, when this fact is installed it is only the symptom that something happens, being alert is the best of the help that we can dispense in the beginning.
Around the age of 7 or 8, children become aware of who they are and the place they occupy in their family, their circle of friends and their school. They tend to become critical of themselves and others, and excessive demand can make them feel unable to achieve impossible ideals, which can lead to feeling unmotivated. Lower school performance, lagging behind the class, tackling certain subjects with greater difficulty, etc. It can make a negative thought of "I'm not good at this or that" appear in your head and automatically, the rejection of everything that suggests effort, study or goals is uncomfortable and they prefer to use the "Why, if not? is it good for anything? » before an "I can."
Then there is the opposite side, that child with high capacities intellectuals who at first get bored in class because he is taken into account together with the group and later develops an evident apathy towards school, a feeling generated by the maladjustment to which he feels subjected.
Finally we find an equally disturbing case of children in whom a demotivation emerges without an apparent cause but in which an excessive overprotection, pampering and concession of whims is detected. They have and get everything, do good or bad, try or not, so it is easier for them to adopt the position of laziness and lack of enthusiasm simply because they lack incentives to stimulate them.
As we can see, find out the (sometimes complex) cause of the demotivation of a child It is the way to adopt, together with the appropriate professional, parents and teachers, the most appropriate solution.