Kid stuff

[azurelunatic]

You have to pretty much stand over him to keep him focused and on task about stuff like homework. He's not good at making decisions about things like what to do next. You give him a sheet with simple math problems that he just races through... and he sits there for what seems like hours, because he doesn't know which one to do next.

I have heard him repeating the alphabet quietly to himself when he's trying to figure out which letter is which, though. I taught him that trick by asking him, "Is this A? Is it B? C? D? E? ..."

Next up: teaching him to read ALL the directions first.

Comments

[hai-kah-uhk.livejournal.com]

Decision-making anxiety. Common enough problem... no easy solution that I can think of... unless for some reason he grows to realize it doesn't always matter. But he needs to be able to see the world in shades of grey before he can do that.

[azurelunatic]

I've been using the "Which one is first on the page? Do that one" or the "Point to one. Ok, do that one" method.

[hai-kah-uhk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, i guess in time the whole idea of "left to right, up to down" becomes automatic. I don't even remember what it was like to not have a good grasp of that, but it makes sense that we all have to learn the order of things from scratch.

[azurelunatic]

In the West, at least...

[redshoeson.livejournal.com]

Good method. ^_^