I LOVE reading these ideas...my DS6 is a total perfectionist - it gets so bad for him that if he makes one teeny tiny mistake on something, he will crumple it up, throw it away and start over from scratch even if it means he had been working on the original item for half an hour. His perfectionism causes him to hestitate in jumping into something or trying something new because he won't do something unless he knows he can get it 100% correct.
I try SO hard to model when I make mistakes.Throughout the week I will make comments like, oopps, I put too much sugar in the recipe or ooppps, I made a boo-boo in my check book or whatever and then I will walk myself verbally through how I can fix the boo-boo. I am hoping that with modeling that it's not the end of the world if everything isn't 100% correct and the sky won't fall, he will see that it is okay to make mistakes....but some days it just drives me NUTS
