Motivating a kid who doesn't want to be there?
I sometimes get moms or dads that insist on dropping their lazy kids off on me. They think by somehow hiring me and that the kids is in a gym and off the streets that somehow he'll just attain fitness through osmosis. I'm training a 14 year old kid now that I just cant read, he shows up three days a week with his mom's money in hand but that's where the enthusiasm stops. I try everything to get him into it, excite him, get him motivated, challenge him....etc. The kid is just expressionless and never says a word one way or another. I can't tell if he would rather be home watching TV, or hates me, or is scared of me...or what. I usually have a really rapport with teenagers because of having two of them myself but this kid is a mystery. I want to talk to his mom of I ever see her again.
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