The Noncompleter with

Behavior: Specific attitudes and actions of this child at home and/or at school.

• Never finishes a project.
  
  
• Always has assignments close to completion ... but unfinished.
  
  
• Never accepts personal responsibility for actions.
  
  
• Often has goals that are too high for successful achievement.
  
  
• Often demonstrates an attitude of superiority rather than inferiority.
  
  
• May frequently urge teacher and classmates to take on a big project-when he/she can't finish a homework assignment.
  
  
• Hogs the show when a project is being planned.
  
  
• Often begins enthusiastically, but loses interest before the end. This is one of the reasons he/she fails.
  
  
• Often criticizes teacher for being unimaginative and failing to accept anything that would be fun.
  
  
• Yet, usually leaves his/her own grand plans for others to finish.
  
  
• Ridicules the conservative and applauds the grandiose.
  
  
• Lacks perspective regarding what's involved in reaching goals.
  
  
• Is usually fantasizing when he/she offers ideas.