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<blockquote data-quote="TeDo" data-source="post: 382651"><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Thanks for the input. I know difficult child hates being told he's wrong but he hates it even worse when the teacher marks it wrong when he KNOWS that they are right. Then the teacher is "stupid" and he acts up for them in school. That is why I took the brunt of it by letting him know before he did them all wrong. He's big on choices for a sense of control so I gave him the choice to leave them (he said he didn't care if he got an F) or let me help. I knew he cared but he needed to figure out that he cared. The issue with talking about it after is that even mentioning the situation later causes a meltdown. He usually cries afterwards and is genuinely embarrassed by it. I can include details in my praise, what he did right, but "discussing" the situation sends him on a spiral. That's one of the issues we have with school. They have an actual form they fill out with the student after every negative situation, NO EXCEPTIONS. In our case, that just causes another, worse spiral. Teaching him that it is okay to be wrong is going to be hard but necessary. I have gotten to where I admit every time I am wrong so he realizes how often that is and that it is okay.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TeDo, post: 382651"] [FONT=Comic Sans MS]Thanks for the input. I know difficult child hates being told he's wrong but he hates it even worse when the teacher marks it wrong when he KNOWS that they are right. Then the teacher is "stupid" and he acts up for them in school. That is why I took the brunt of it by letting him know before he did them all wrong. He's big on choices for a sense of control so I gave him the choice to leave them (he said he didn't care if he got an F) or let me help. I knew he cared but he needed to figure out that he cared. The issue with talking about it after is that even mentioning the situation later causes a meltdown. He usually cries afterwards and is genuinely embarrassed by it. I can include details in my praise, what he did right, but "discussing" the situation sends him on a spiral. That's one of the issues we have with school. They have an actual form they fill out with the student after every negative situation, NO EXCEPTIONS. In our case, that just causes another, worse spiral. Teaching him that it is okay to be wrong is going to be hard but necessary. I have gotten to where I admit every time I am wrong so he realizes how often that is and that it is okay.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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