Hi, thanks in advance for anyone who takes time to read and/or respond to this! Now that I'm done with my college process, my parents have shifted their focus to my brother. He's a junior (18 months younger than I am) and all of us are a bit worried about him. He's a B/B+ average student (numerically anyways), has never finished an extracurricular activity to completion, and is not self motivated at all. They tried to get me to talk to him because I seem to have more success than he does, but he blew me off completely (I'm his older sister, I don't know what they expected...).
They've tried everything to get him to shape up: they put him on my science olympiad team (he's an extra) because I'm an executive officer and my dad donated a HUGE amount of money to the club, they bought gifts for a teacher so that she curved the final in HIS favor (went from a C to a B), they check in on him constantly during the night (so he does his homework), they've even literally thrown money at tutors so that he can do well in classes. But all of this is to no avail: he's still incredibly immature, has a terrible work ethic, and has a video game addiction (my parents took away his laptop for 2 days once, he stayed in his room crying and didn't even come out to eat or drink anything). My parents are out of ideas, they just don't know how to deal with him because their method of parenting was successful (well, mostly. I have my own set of quirks) with me. Does anyone have any tips for an unmotivated child?
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