I have encouraged him to rush through it, as has my husband. My husband keeps telling him she can't grade him on coloring since it isn't art class. Don't know about that, but whatever it takes to get him to get it done. I know how he feels to want something to be good and be told to rush. It seems impossible to allow yourself to turn in something that is not your best, especially when it is an area that you take pride in and enjoy, which is drawing for him. He doesn't always behave that way with other things, for example I don't see him checking and double checking his homework before turning it in. I think my questions to the board were more to try to get a better understanding of how he thinks (as a gifted individual) and what underlying issue could be causing his actions. I have begun reading about the Gregorc learning styles and that seems to help. Am also in a school myself (nurse) so I have asked to borrow some gifted info. to read. I just need to know best how to deal with him in these type of situations both at school and at home. Overall he is a high achieving people pleasing, no trouble student. All A's on his report card yesterday. Great kid, but we hit things like this occasionally and if I understood better, I wouldn't get so frustrated. One thing I have done this year is to problem solve with him. Actually get out paper, write our problem and discuss what we can do to solve it and then work to implement it. Thanks for listening to my rambling. I will do some additional reading here to.
