Late one night I
received a phone call from a frantic dad.
“Mrs. Douglas, would you please talk to Jenny? She’s been working for hours on her English paper and won’t
go to bed until it’s done.”
I couldn’t
imagine what the massive assignment could be for this was just the first day of the school year! So when
she came to the phone I asked for details.
“Well,” Jenny
said, “my teacher said she was going to base our writers’ workshop goals on
this first assignment and to write the
best essay we could.”
Ahhhhh! Perfectionism. How do we help our gifted kids learn to
match their efforts to teachers’ expectations?
As Judy
Galbraith wrote in her 8 Great Rights of
Gifted Kids:
#4 - You have a
right to make mistakes and not do your best all the time.
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