Without beating about the bush, DH and I are both bright, intelligent, quick-thinking etc etc. Good degrees. Like reading & learning.
DS1 is a chip off the old block(s) - seems to absorb information, and always has his nose in a book. Ahead of peers. Has never struggled with anything (except perhaps team sports!)
DS2 is completely different. Late to read. Slow to understand/'get' things. Doesn't concentrate. Learns something one day and forgets the next.
I love them both unreservedly, but fear that I am a crap parent to DS2, as I simply don't have the patience to do stuff at his pace.
I sometimes have to walk away when he's doing his homework to stop myself showing my frustration and tendency to 'jump in' .
Inside my head I'm thinking "how can you have FORGOTTEN how to spell that when it's right in front of you in the question" or "but we just talked about that".
Aaargh - how do you manage to have any empathy when your child is so different to yourself?
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Academic parents with very 'average' children - how do you cope?
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whippet · 21/09/2009 22:10
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