t's interesting because if I look back over the year (she just finished grade 4), she's no longer plagued by perfectionism but her work is much sloppier. She's very "all or nothing." It's either perfect with angst or sloppy and substandard with a smile.
Oh yeah. We have this too. It's weird. DD has absolutely gorgeous, perfect handwriting. She recently decided to make it horrible. Like, semi-legible. I rarely get really mad at her about stuff like this, but it was driving me NUTS, especially her "whatever" attitude about it. We actually did put our foot down and made her start rewriting things. All we could get out of her was that she wanted to write faster and that a girl in her class who she admired wrote "like that." I man, a minor drop in quality would have been fine, but this was A+ handwriting to C-. Weird.
