There are times that we truly just don’t want to do something- we aren’t motivated. But- in the educational setting, behind what looks like lack of will is almost always a lack of necessary skills. Underneath almost every single “won’t” is at least one perceived “can’t”. Motivation isn’t just a sheer force of will but a factor influenced by our physiology, our self-efficacy, our social, physical and emotional environment, the match or mismatch between the task demands and a child’s skill and ene