Comments on: Perseverating

By: mcewen

mcewen — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:27:00 +0000

I'm right with you on the painful frustration both yours and his!
Best wishes
p.s. if you've got any 'quick fixes' let me know!

By: thejunkyswife

thejunkyswife — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:17:00 +0000

That game sounds awful...like some kind of chess from hell. I don't want to play.

By: longvowels

longvowels — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:37:00 +0000

brilliant! i love mpj.

By: Danielle B. Blogging for Balance

Danielle B. Blogging for Balance — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:44:00 +0000

I was impressed just to see the title !!! A concept I teach in Human Growth and Development

By: Honey

Honey — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:41:00 +0000

brilliant, he is absolutly. I feel like making the game for him except I fear it would not match the one in his head. I loved the post, thank you.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:22:00 +0000

Unbelievable. I love this post. You are so right. I live with something constantly dangling in from of my nose.

"It saddens me that he gets so painfully frustrated, that he can't let go, that we can't have our cookie and move on."

I love this sentence. It's simply ... life as a mother.

By: Madness (JAA)

Madness (JAA) — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:25:00 +0000

This belongs on your best of mpj list.
Awesome.
Your son is brilliant for sure. I'm in love with both of your kids, too. Can I have them?
Peace,
Scout

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:31:00 +0000

I never liked the distraction idea, at least for kids older than infancy. It seemed somehow to trivialize their desires, as if what they wanted didn't matter. Geeze, that sounds pretentious. But it was - and is - important to me that my daughter knows her desires are valid, even if I can't or won't meet them. Childhood issue much??

Distraction always seemed like a way of avoiding limit-setting, at least for some parents. I've also let my kid scream her way through frustration, but that happens a lot faster and less violently than it does for yours, and far less often now. It's hard when you can't help them.

By: bella

bella — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:49:00 +0000

Perseverate. So this is what its called. My son too, is extremely gifted in this area.