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    Wren #20012 07/13/08 06:47 PM
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    Absolutely. Haven't read the other responses, but this is one reason of many that we are on the road to homeschooling. DS was always bad in this regard, but even worse after this year of school. He balks at having to put the slightest bit of effort into anything academic.

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    Just to add, after reading other responses, DS puts huge amounts of effort into sports, swimming (very hard for him!), and piano.

    Parts of piano come very easy to him. We had to switch piano teachers because we had a teacher that was absolutely enchanted with how quickly DS could move through repertoire. But he didn't expect him to play it as well as the 12 year olds working on the same stuff. I wanted a teacher that would push him on technique and make him play it the best HE can. Not necessarily the best the average 7 year old would play. We've been with our new teacher about 6 months and it was very ugly for the first 4. He basically had to re-learn a bunch of songs. Not fun for either of us! Only the past month has this new teacher discovered what DS can really do, so it should start to get fun again!

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    Exactly kimck, you pretty much hit the nail on the head there. All kids need challenges from time to time, that is absolutely how they start developing self esteem. They have a challenge, think they might not be able to do it, yet succeed in spite of it "being hard". Victory! They can remember that feeling the next time they approach something that appears difficult. With our kids especially I think we have to be vigilant that they also are "allowed" to have these self-esteem building experiences. At 2 or 3, this is not such a big issue. However at school age, there sometimes isn't much during the day that is challenging and I think that can be very problematic for these kids in the long run.

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