What to do with DD

[Tinkerfell]

Please help. DD is 6, entering yr 2, and is v. smart. Problem is she only concentrates for a few seconds then thinks she knows everything there is to know about something, then gets really cross with herself when she gets something wrong! It seems to be a bit of a downward spiral to me, and any thoughts on how to break the cycle would be gratefully received.

PS, I have always made sure to say that mistakes are ok, we can learn from them, and I don't think I put pressure on her to get things right.

Thanks

No advice as such, but just wanted to say that all of my DC were like this at that age. In their cases it was just about maturity, as they did eventually recognise the correlation between not listening to instructions and then getting the work wrong!

Hopefully someone will be along with some practical suggestions, but I never found any that worked

Oh, just remembered that I did start encouraging them to concentrate for increasingly lengthy periods at home - by listening to a story CD or following a recipe, that sort of thing, any task really that rewarded concentration with a successful outcome.

Thanks adeucalione. She can and will concentrate forever when something interests her (or if offered an acceptable bribe!!), it's the all important stuff that doesn't (boring old maths etc) that causes a problem. I'm worried that going into year 2 she will have to be more independent and progress through the all important school levels will take a turn for the worse, then follows negative self image...

My dd2 is like that still (going into year 4). You can ask her for 8 x 12 and she'll come back with 96 straight off. Ask her to add one and she'll say "98, no 89... no..." Just guessing rather than working out.

She concentrates much better for the hard questions than the easy ones. She has improved a lot over the last year though.