Ren, not sure if this helps, It was strongly sugested to us to praise effort over results. Results are easy. It is effort that will help you succeed. We have been trying this for some time. It dosn't always work. One thing was finding something difficult, new, and fun. When they solve that then moving on. For each child fun can be different. We used games like traffic jam, or puzzeles. In math we tried new concepts, multi step problems, in reading we would alternate by chapter, I would read, he would read. We tried to avoid repation, and in Math we have tried to avoid perfection before moving on. It seems to have helped. But our DS6 still wants lots of time with us when he does things.
