Zen Scanner thanks for those two articles, I have sent them to my husband just now, they both really touch on direct issues with our DD. She HATES to ever know she's made a mistake, let alone look at it, discuss it and think about how to do it differently next time. God forbid she ever acknowledge confusion or not knowing something.
And she absolutely does stay focused and make progress most rapidly when faced with video game style learning (example: when given a reading eggs account at the point of exact readiness she ripped through it at lightening speed and taught herself to read, with the caveat that the further in she got the more often she would come and beg me to do the boring bits so she could get to the next level, this would be when they had an identical type of exercise in every level for 10-20 levels and huge repetition of said exercise before you could get past, I would make her do enough to prove mastery to ME and then I would do the rest of the exercise for her at adult speed).
