Yes, this helps so much. I hope the damage hasn't been already been done or too much of it, anyway. He does seem to be loosening up a bit and I hope we can find a way to help him over the summer and throughout the next year to accept mistakes and really, really integrate the knowledge that hard work is a good and necessary habit.
He might be a 3 type if that can happen without getting that feeling from parents. We're pretty laid back in many ways--almost to a fault. But who knows. This kind of thing doesn't come from a vacuum...
He'll erase lines in a drawing or a math problem until it meets his expectation. He drew this amazing street view and it had an erasure rip in it and I took it to have it framed (with his permission) and he got to hear the framers compliment it. No one pointed out the rip. It's hanging on our wall. Just today, he pointed out the rip again, and I explained how the rip didn't even register with me. The work was beautiful as it was. Wabi-sabi.
Last edited by KADmom; 05/13/13 06:07 PM.
