Recently I have been reading a lot about perfectionism in children. Most of what I've read calls perfectionism a learned behaviour and lays the 'blame' for this firmly at the feet of the parents.
Our four year old is perfectionistic and although I am perfectionistic myself - as in being the world's best procrastinator in certain circumstances - I know I haven't displayed this to my son. I am also quite sure I haven't made a big deal about 'doing your best' or producing a fantastic product. In fact we make a big deal about 'having a go' and not being concerned about mistakes.
The only thing I can think of is that perfectionism in young gifted children is something to do with asynchronous development and the children having a sense of how they would like things to turn out. Any ideas?
