My eldest is 8 years old. I love her to pieces, but she is all over the place. She can be happy one minute.. sad the next.. then angry after that.
I came home last night and she hadn't done all her homework. I was running late, so I had her come up to try and work on it. I can't do this.. I can't do that.. crying crying crying... just what I wanted to do for my evening.
She's a very bright young girl, but she gets caught up in "drama". If it doesn't come easy to her she doesn't want to apply herself.
The teacher has commented a few times that her handwriting is very bad. So I've been making her write out her spelling words. Figure it's helping in 2 areas.
Last night's math homework, she knew how to do but didn't know how to explain it. So I wrote a sentence down for her and then she went into melt down because she couldn't write that whole thing in the space she had. It was too many words. So I tried to put it in a very easy way to show it and she doesn't do that either. She "writes" it. Which is fine, she did it her way and in her own manner, but this was an over an hour trying to get that one thing done. And we still had other homework to do. Of course this all comes up at "bedtime". So there goes my going to bed early. But we did get it all done.
I try very desperately to work on her confidence in a realistic manner. I try to minimize the crying and carrying on she does. I asked my Mom if I was ever like that and she told me no. She apparently gets it from my Mom.
All I can do is pray when she becomes a teen it doesn't get that much worse. But I have a feeling it'll be worse before better...
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