Originally Posted by hip
My son's perfectionism used to stand in the way of both; it no longer does.

It doesn't sound like that's accurate to me. Your son's perfectionism, and your parenting style, seem to have resulted in a situation where your son feels the need to be pushed by you. (I'm struggling to eschew references to possible culture, use of idioms, etc. here to keep us sufficiently on the same wavelength to communicate in English. How'd I do?)

Striving to increase my rate of flow, and fight forum gloopiness. sick