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difficult child too critical of himself--a plan
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<blockquote data-quote="I'm going crazy!!!" data-source="post: 97713" data-attributes="member: 4280"><p>when my son was in prek and they were starting to write their names, letters, & numbers he would act like he didn't know how to hold a pencil and would always say he couldn't do it or he would ball up his paper</p><p></p><p>the teacher and myself worked on this for months if he refused to do something at school she would send it home and i would try to get him to do it</p><p></p><p>FINALLY one day we were sitting there and he was telling me how he couldn't do it and i was telling him he could atleast try he got so mad that he finally did it but he did it really sloppy and i just praised him and told him how i thought that was just perfect and that was exactly what we wanted him to do when we asked him to do classwork from then on, most days, he would be the first one finished</p><p></p><p>but we go through this everytime he has to master a new skill isn't school gonna be fun</p><p></p><p>my point is always emphasize and make it clear to the teacher that perfection is not needed if they try then to start that's enough i believe eventually they will improve on their on and maybe even be the best one out of the class</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm going crazy!!!, post: 97713, member: 4280"] when my son was in prek and they were starting to write their names, letters, & numbers he would act like he didn't know how to hold a pencil and would always say he couldn't do it or he would ball up his paper the teacher and myself worked on this for months if he refused to do something at school she would send it home and i would try to get him to do it FINALLY one day we were sitting there and he was telling me how he couldn't do it and i was telling him he could atleast try he got so mad that he finally did it but he did it really sloppy and i just praised him and told him how i thought that was just perfect and that was exactly what we wanted him to do when we asked him to do classwork from then on, most days, he would be the first one finished but we go through this everytime he has to master a new skill isn't school gonna be fun my point is always emphasize and make it clear to the teacher that perfection is not needed if they try then to start that's enough i believe eventually they will improve on their on and maybe even be the best one out of the class [/QUOTE]
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