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The Child Perfectionist

by Donna from K-3 Teacher Resources
(Australia)

Perfectionist.......

In the early years, I have found some children want to do their work perfectly or not at all.

They tend to think that they should learn everything on the first day. I always tried to encourage the children to do their best and that we all need to start somewhere.. etc etc.

However, a friend of mine related to me how she spoke to her little girl when she said that she 'can't draw'.

She told her child that Mummy and Daddy have had 40 (an average only!!!!!!!!!of course) years to practice their drawing, brother Thomas (8 years old) has had 8 years to practice his drawing, and you have had 5 years to practice your drawing, your drawing is wonderful for 5 years practice, imagine if you keep practicing, every year you will improve.....etc, etc......

I thought this was a wonderful way to explain the process of learning and improving in many areas......not just drawing....

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The Child Perfectionist

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Jan 21, 2008
 I Agree
by: Anonymous

My son (6 years old) is a perfectionist and excels at some sports - he has been asked to play with an older group due to his large for his age size and abilities but after playing a couple times with them (which was his decision to play and he was excited about it..at first)he now is saying he doesn't want to play because kids 2 full years older than him are a bit faster than him - I explained to him exactly how you described that that child had 2 more years of practice than he did and that when he was 8 he would be a bit faster than he is now at 6. It seemed to reach him but I do worry alot about him because he pushes himself so hard in school, sports, and everything else he is in and he always thinks he has to be the best, smartest, etc or he's not good enough. I always tell him that all we expect of him (in sports) is to try and mainly HAVE FUN! I tell it's not important how many goals he scores and that everyone has an important part on the team - if you stop goals, help defend the goalie, assist goals or encourage your teammates these are all just as important as actually scoring a goal - but he still measures his worth on number of goals scored (a bit) but we are working on it!

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