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This week started off great as far as my planning and Kaleb participating and then veered wildly off course. My plans were to do our bird unit this week, and we did start it, but I’m thinking that we’ll be working on it much more next week too.
Monday and Tuesday went pretty much according to schedule and Kaleb was moving along great. Wednesday though was a completely different matter.
There are days when we deal with whining a bit, but Kaleb took whining to an entirely different level that day and mixed it in with a WHOLE heap of perfectionism. Our of all of our kiddos, he is the most particular about how things are done {and the proper order, etc…}, but it just got ridiculous that day.
I seriously didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at times.
He wanted to do his ‘work’ but yet couldn’t do his work the way he thought was the ‘right’ way. He kept erasing things and redoing them and when I would tell him he didn’t have to do it, he would cry and say he did. If I tried to take the work away, he wanted it back.
Exhausting.
Thursday we went on a field trip with some family that is visiting, so next week we’re going to try pacing things a little differently and continue on with what we started.
BUT….how was YOUR week?
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We deal with the whole perfectionism quite a bit with my oldest. Like you said – it can be extremely exhausting! It’s good to know I’m not the only mom who has to deal with this. Here’s to a better week next week!
it was so pitiful…our oldest was somewhat this way but no where NEAR
as bad as he can be.
Whining is so tough! Perfectionism can be so hard to deal with because deep down you know they are trying to achieve something good. I hope that you have a good weekend!
Thanks for hosting the link up.
Kerri
I had a week of whining … My DH is treating me to a weekend at the lake .. yes it was that bad!
have a good time at the lake!!
I will say, it is so nice to have a place to hear that other homeschoolers have rough weeks too! Here’s hoping next week is not so full of tears…
Crazy, glad it’s over LOL!
Been there a few times. I really want to cry most of the time, but end up laughing. It usually makes it better…unless they think you’re laughing at them. =p
which is why I had to hide when I did laugh. It was so pitiful at times,
but made him MAD!!
Bear is a little perfectionistic too. One day she had a complete meltdown because her perfectly fine k’s did not look right to her (they looked just about perfect to me!)
My son won’t let me change his food around on the table once I set it down. If I try to move his glass out of the way he gets angry and shouts NO and moves it back to where I first placed it.
I found a way to extend your Where’s the Cake game with Bear to include addition and subtraction questions. I blogged about it here http://theadventuresofbear.blogspot.com/2011/04/wheres-cake-math-game.html
My daughter LOVES this btw so thank you for creating the pdf:)
Happy Easter :-)
Happy Easter to you too! :)
Thanks for the pack on Knights! So cute and so useful :)