What fascinates me is the way she will simply not hear what I'm saying, because she's already made up her mind that it's some other way.
Sometimes asking a question may help a kid hear what's being conveyed, it seems to process through a different part of the brain?
She does this with reading too. She gets it into her head what the next word should be, and she stares at the letters trying to make them be what she thinks the word HAS to be, simply disbelieving the evidence of her own eyes.
The upside of this may be a strong predictive ability, so personally I would praise her for that, saying something along the lines of, "That
would be a great idea." Possibly even discuss other things the text
could say. Then go on to discussing what the text
does say.
At this point I will confess I originally read the subject line as "Stubborn kid gets her own way" (not "Stubborn kid gets
in her own way").
