Well, she worked about 40 hours during that week, and aced the semester. This feat frankly astonished my spouse and I. She was placed in the HONORS algebra I course intended for high school freshmen, and she was a nine year old 7th grader....
...She had even less time that term-- only five days. We did concede that she might need an extension on that one, so she had an extra week available.
She aced that, too...
It occurs to me that procrastination is something that I do to make uninteresting tasks more interesting. Putting something off until the last possible minute flirts much closer to failure and generates excitement and motivation. Granted, I don't do this with course work, only rudimentary tasks. Your DD's learning abilities are waaay beyond mine.
But I wonder if your DD has the same motivations for putting things off?
Yes indeedy-- only, being a child, she has a child's emotional/stress coping, and is prone to (occasionally) getting in over her head with this strategy (witness Integral Calculus)-- when the Hail Mary doesn't lead to a touchdown... which
feels like abject failure. Never mind that avoiding the crash and burn
alone is pretty astonishing under the circumstances, it still feels like a shameful failure to them.
And yes, while I'm not in my DD's league, intellectually, I played many of the same head games with myself as a college student.
I know
what is going on in that head of hers-- but it doesn't mean that I have any way to shift it.
