Some kids become high-achievers to compensate for their parents' disinterest.
1 the fact of having no involvement in or receiving no special advantage or good from a situation or event:
Their close and financially rewarding relationship was sufficient to call into question the independence and disinterest of the directors.
He gave an impression of calm disinterest in the world about him.
One aspect of this is the disinterest shown in older people as consumers.
The future uncertainty due to such measures may result in disinterest in exporting.
A neutral, presentist perspective - epistemological disinterest - remains, for anyone with political projects, in the realm of pure theory.
His or her quietness or slowness to respond may be misinterpreted by others as aloofness, disinterest, or unresponsiveness.
Unfortunately, the latter's re-assignment to another post, coupled with the disinterest of his successor in continuing the initiative, spelled the end of participatory community policing.
Either way she may realise that expressing either enthusiasm or disinterest could self-construct a particular age-related identity.
The most likely reason for the apparent disinterest is that planters simply could not imagine that women might not want to reproduce.
With regard to attitude, the adult either expressed interest or disinterest in the object.
