From the author: Parents of teenagers sometimes have to watch how their smart, capable child, a confident good student or even an excellent student in the recent past, suddenly slips to 3 and 2, loses interest in studying and does not improve at all their performance in response to demands, advice or reproaches from parents and teachers. The article describes how to motivate a teenager to study and restore the desire to study school subjects. Parents of modern teenagers often notice how, when moving to the 6th, 7th and higher grades, the teenager’s academic performance and interest in learning begin to decline. Yesterday's excellent student or solid student "slips down" before our eyes, gets annoying C grades, stops doing homework and, as the parents themselves say, completely "gives up" on studying. The recognition that adolescence, of course, is a difficult period in a child’s life and new interests that naturally appear in him (first love, the need to have a real friend, picky attention to his own appearance) distract him from school is fair, but does not relieve the parent from worry about how to motivate a teenager to study. The teacher’s words that “he’s a smart, capable boy, but he’s just completely lazy” cause annoyance and the right desire to intervene in the situation and restore significance and value to studies. But how to do this? It is no longer possible to stand “over your head” when doing homework with growing children - they ask to leave the room, they are offended by excessive control and distrust on the part of their parents. Punishing people for bad grades is even more useless, as it leads to conflicts in the family and does not improve academic performance in any way. Threats like “you will go work as a janitor” do not frighten a teenager at all and fly off him like peas off a wall. What can a parent do to motivate a teenager to study? First of all, it is important to understand that the desire and willingness to learn remains (or appears) in a teenager in two cases: 1) he is very interested in the learning process and likes to gain new knowledge, or 2) he recognizes the necessity and importance of knowledge in life, needs it to solve specific life problems. It turns out that in order to motivate a teenager to study, you can either increase the attractiveness of the learning process in his eyes, or convince him of the value of the material he is learning. To influence these motivational levers, a parent can invite the teenager to fill out the following table together: Knowledge and skills that are important for a teenager in life School subjects that give this knowledge and develop these skills Why does a teenager need this knowledge, skills, and abilities in life now? When does a teenager turn 20 – 25-30 years old, how will this knowledge, skills, abilities be useful to him? Why is it important for a parent that a teenager knows or can do this??