• Your child's teacher or school counselor recommends it. This may happen at a parent-teacher conference or when progress reports or report cards go home.
  • Your child's grades start to fall, even though he seems to be working.
  • Your child's homework is neither complete nor accurate, no matter how long she spends doing it. This may indicate a lack of basic skills or a weakness in a specific academic area.
  • Your child shows an increasing lack of confidence and motivation.
  • Your child has lost interest in learning.
  • Your child has extreme anxiety before tests.
  • Your child is reluctant to go to school because he fears failure or criticism.
  • Your child's teacher says she is acting up or becoming a behavior problem.
  • Your child says, "I'm too stupid. I'll never understand this stuff."
  • Your child says, "I give up." Or worse, you hear yourself saying it.

Reprinted from the AZ Republic