You know there are two philosophies that you could apply to a child that's not doing well. And in the case of the children that I work with, it's mostly kids who have behavioral challenges. What we've been believing about them for a very long time is the philosophy called kids do well if they want to. The belief that if a child isn't doing well, isn't behaving himself, it must be because he doesn't want to behave himself. He doesn't want to do well. And I find that that's not the best belief system. I find that it's inaccurate. But I can tell you what it leads us to. It leads us to interventions aimed at making kids want to do well. How do you make a kid want to do well? We are all very familiar with the strategies. You reward the behaviors you like so as to see more of them. You punish the behaviors you don’t so as to see less of them. And are now in the business of making a kid want to do well founded on the belief that he didn't want to do well in the first place. Important question to ask. Why would any kid not want to do well? Don't all of us do pretty much do the best we can in pretty much most of the circumstances we find ourselves in? Kids do well if they can takes us in a completely different direction. It's the belief that if this kid could do well, he would do well. And if he's not doing well, something must be getting in his way. The most important role that an adult can play in the life of a kid who's not doing well isn't to come up with another more creative, more potent reward or punishment to make the kid want to do well. But rather to finally at long last figure out what's been getting in his way. Until we figure that out, we're not going to be very successful at helping the kid.