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Discovered ONE reason difficult child was stalling on his homework, OMG
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<blockquote data-quote="keista" data-source="post: 466990" data-attributes="member: 11965"><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/groooansmileyf.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":groan:" title="groan :groan:" data-shortname=":groan:" /> I think if we knew the answer to that, we could make a fortune! Hopefully you've had a nice chat with him so he's aware that he SHOULD tell you these things so you can figure out how to help him around these types of problems.</p><p></p><p> Just keep working through it and helping him find solutions to these "stuck" moments. Like for this assignment, I'm sure he's aware that there are all different ways to make things match. Find ways to make them "match". Reality is, they will never match exactly because one has 9 letters and the other 13, but you can change font, size, color, etc to make them "match"</p><p></p><p>I've done this hundreds of times with son, and too often, if it's stuck in his head one way, even if he understands my logic, he's still not 100% satisfied, BUT now he can accept it and move on despite not being happy about it. In the past, he just wouldn't, and I'd be contacting the teacher and explaining in agonizing detail why son couldn't do the assignment. Oh the 'evil' 7th grade art teacher comes to mind - she insisted EVERYTHING have color. Son is a pencil sketcher - really not into color. I got him to compromise by adding small bits of color. He hated it at first, but finally got that it's what he had to do to pass.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="keista, post: 466990, member: 11965"] :groooansmileyf: I think if we knew the answer to that, we could make a fortune! Hopefully you've had a nice chat with him so he's aware that he SHOULD tell you these things so you can figure out how to help him around these types of problems. Just keep working through it and helping him find solutions to these "stuck" moments. Like for this assignment, I'm sure he's aware that there are all different ways to make things match. Find ways to make them "match". Reality is, they will never match exactly because one has 9 letters and the other 13, but you can change font, size, color, etc to make them "match" I've done this hundreds of times with son, and too often, if it's stuck in his head one way, even if he understands my logic, he's still not 100% satisfied, BUT now he can accept it and move on despite not being happy about it. In the past, he just wouldn't, and I'd be contacting the teacher and explaining in agonizing detail why son couldn't do the assignment. Oh the 'evil' 7th grade art teacher comes to mind - she insisted EVERYTHING have color. Son is a pencil sketcher - really not into color. I got him to compromise by adding small bits of color. He hated it at first, but finally got that it's what he had to do to pass. [/QUOTE]
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