At least now all the advocacy meetings are done for the year and we get a summer break from pretending to be extroverted parents!!
Love it!
My youngest takes a while to warm up and I was worried that her teachers would take this as a sign that the subject acceleration was problematic. Once she gets comfortable though, watch out!
Thought this was a good way to explain it from a chapter on exclusion in a book called
Why Good Kids Act Cruel:
To the shy adolescent who keeps getting hurt by exclusion, parents can say something like this: "There is nothing wrong with feeling shy. But there can be problems if you act shy, because by acting shy, you make feeling shy worse. So the trick is to gather your courage and act outgoing and responsive. The more you practice acting less shy, the more socially confident you will feel, the more other people will get to know you, the more friends you'll have a chance to make, the more included you will become. If you want to be included and make friends, you have to act friendly. Shy is not a friendly way to act."
Jesse, thanks for posting that Duke article too.
