he is crying over his homework now, I feel terrible
he is 8 and has AS and is very nervy and sensitive, and very bright and capable as well
we have an ongoing niggle with him rushing written work and making daft mistakes, missing out letters or whole words, capital letters in the middles of words etc
his homework this week is to make a wordsearch
he just brought it to me and asked me to do it and tell him what I thought
I found 6 or 7 mistakes - and I'm sure had I finished it there would have been more - including two letters crammed into one square, words spelt one way on the list and another in the grid, really simple spelling mistakes of words he KNOWS how to spell, like "produt" instead of "product"
I gently and non-aggressively pointed out the mistakes and said that I think he needs to change them if he wants it to be a good piece of work - I did also say that he had had good ideas and if he corrected the mistakes it would be great
he is crying 
and dh is helping him draw a new grid (I would have helped, but I am persona non grata now)
he is really bright and capable, honestly - he passed all the Y6 SATS in Y1 (not my idea!) and a piece of work like this is not beyond him - he also likes wordsearches and does a lot of them himself
was I mean? I feel mean