Why Does My Teen Procrastinate?

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'Procrastination isn’t a personality flaw or a time-management issue. It's a way of coping with challenging emotions and negative moods induced by certain tasks.'

issue. It's a way of coping with challenging emotions and negative moods induced by certain tasks — boredom, anxiety, insecurity, frustration, resentment, self-doubt, and more. We procrastinate because our short-term need for a better mood outweighs our long-term need to complete the task. This need is even greater in adolescents whose emotions are less manageable. Many teens use procrastination as a maladaptive way to ward off unpleasant emotions.

Try to mindful of what emotion your teen is avoiding instead of what task he or she is avoiding. In that way, you can work together on soothing the emotion instead of either parent or child focusing on the “lazy” insult. I am a huge fan of setting up small rewards as motivation. Plan a fun activity for when your teen is finished, and reward smaller steps on the way to completion with small rewards . Encourage your teen to set up their own rewards.

 

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why put off for tomorrow what you can postpone till the day after

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Hard for many to understand this.

Yeah...anxiety makes you procrastinate. Says a lot of high schoolers and college students.

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...procrastination causes by its incessant rhetoric in the midst of its detractors persecutors objectors and oppresssors.

Psychology is the search, pursuit of ones truth, purpose, place, meaning in life. That is its nature. Procrastination is its method of examination research introspection to release itself from dissociative mental turmoil freeing itself form its own pathos and the parasitic offend

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probably stressed out

Its also a trait of some with ADHD as they press the issue of a hard deadline for many reasons, aside from the two listed.

'Why does my late 20s procrastinate tho?' asking for a friend

This challenges a whole theory about how people learn and manage their resources to get certain goal. Interesting.

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