>>212520450When I was 3 to about 8 my mom stayed home and my dad worked at a company. My mom made me do my homework and study for exams and I got the best grades in my class. She was very strict, no playing before doing my homework, but as long as I did it she was very chill, she'd let me ride my bike on the street, play video games to my heart's content, etc.
There was this one nerdy kid whose grades were almost as good as mine (now as an adult he looks like Aldous Huxley, he just has that smart guy face). When I was 8 my mom went to work out of the house and my dad started working at home and my dad has absolutely zero concept of discipline. He didn't demand anything of me. I could do whatever the hell I wanted. Which meant a lot of watching tv, playing video games and fapping. My grades plummeted and to this day decades later it's very difficult for me to be disciplined. Now I'm middle-aged and a fuck-up. Meanwhile that one nerdy kid is now a doctor.
I'm not trying to lay all the blame on my dad but just imposing the most basic ass discipline on your kid makes a world of difference. Just don't let them play before doing their homework and do it consistently. Shouldn't be difficult.
(I get mad just thinking about this, I've had fights with my dad about this, but he's just a stubborn simpleton type, it's like he can't quite grasp the enormous importance of not spoiling your children when they're young. The kinda guy who thinks he's being a super dad by giving you a bag of cookies and letting you watch 11 hours of tv a day.)