My 8yr old ds won't try anything unless he can do it first time. As soon as he makes a mistake he has a major strop and gives up. He won't even try with a lot of things he just says I can't do it. We've tryed explaining to him that if he got everything right the first time that he wouldn't need to learn everything and that making mistakes is just part of the learning proccess and that sometimes learning can be hard. Tiredness does affect him so we try to do things when he's less tired but even then the barriers often go up as soon as we suggest he does something especially reading which he does find hard. We also make sure we point out to him all the things he has done well and succeeded at in whatever he's doing but he always wants to focus on the one thing that didn't go quite right. Has anyone any ideas as to how we can turn this around for him?
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