Yes. This is why I am always lurking on this site, because it is so comforting to know there are people out there who feel the same way.
Even my DS6 struggles sometimes with homework because the answer is so obvious to him that it couldn't possibly be the RIGHT answer, could it? So he spins his mental wheels looking for something meaningful. Major flashback.
I wish I knew how to help my kids with that. I wish I knew how to help myself with that. I still struggle in meetings.
My son was doing a fill in the blank question about the boston tea party (8th grade am history class) and we were laughing because we couldn't figure out something about throwing the tea "in ____________" was it supposed to be "in the harbor" that just felt too obvious "in defiance" "in rebellion". I told him to write down five or six possible answers but that in the harbor was my guess. It felt like a where phrase to me and not a how.
