My daughter is now almost 12. She is a perfectionist with certain things. She wants to master them. I let her do it. My husband is the same way. He is almost 50. He is successful and will work to get something correctly (I mean really correctly). I can't talk them out of it and I spent time trying. I want that time back.
My daughter has interests she does not care to master. She loves nature and accepts it like it is and does not mind getting dirty - so we explore nature together. Try to find some of these interests.
I push her (and my husband) to do new things. They are both gifted and their interest usually gets the better of them.
Maybe it is not such a bad thing. I work with a lot of slackers and that is worse.
