"I Don't Care"

Mistakes: Common misjudgments and errors in managing the child which may perpetuate or intensify the problem.

• Not trying to find out what's really important for this child.
  
  
• Failing to ask what really motivates or would motivate this student, what he/she would be interested in and would like to do, and how he/she would like to approach it.
  
  
• Making the student's problems exclusively his/her own, and beginning to manifest an "I don't care" attitude toward the student.
  
  
• Reinforcing this negative behavior in either subtle or overt ways.
  
  
• Giving up on this student.
  
  
• Getting tough.
  
  
• Responding personally.
  
  
• Failing to look for tiny improvements in the student's behavior or attempts to complete tasks.