So DS just told me, "I don't want to goto fifth grade next year because fourth grade is a little too hard right now." So I questioned him a bit. He says he loves the class, but it's only a little hard. He thinks it should be easy for him. So my mother guilt is coming out now...thinking I am pushing him too much to send him three grades up. But he is so happy with them. More importantly, it concerns me that he ALREADY thinks that school should be easy. What do I do?
I'd start looking at just HOW easy the rest of school is, that he has this particular idea already.
This is NOT a good thing for kids to experience long-term. BTDT, got that tee shirt.
The
best case scenario there is that your child believes that s/he "struggles with" and "has no aptitude for" his/her weakest academic area.
For example-- my DD is probably going to top 750 in writing on the SAT. She thinks that she is "below average" in her writing ability.
Because it is the ONLY area where instructional level has met her in her proximal zone year after year. Everything else mostly is well beneath her actual readiness level, to the point that she doesn't need to really
work to learn any of it. What little she doesn't already know, I mean.
So I'd be looking at more than math, if he's got that as a global expectation.
