'I'm Just a Nube at Everything'

Tommy moved his bird's nest fern from his window sill to his desk so it wouldn't get too much sun. He let it go a couple days without watering, and it seemed to recover a bit. A few days later, he noticed that the leaves on his plant had started to wilt again. They were losing their fun crinkly shape and turning flat and limp. What am i doing wrong? Tommy asked himself as he pondered his struggling plant. How could mike and mary's plants be doing just fine, while his appeared to be dying even when he tried doing exactly what they did?! His mother found him sulking at the table, eating notcho chips