Hi, my daughter is 5.5 and is in year 1. She has moderate learning difficulties and a speech problem. She seems to love school and has been doing very well until a few days ago. The teacher says that she's non compliant and it took her 2 hours to write 1 line of coppied writing. When the teacher said she'd have to stay in at break to finnish her work, she wrote the second line within about 30 seconds. [hmm] The teacher says that she dosn't seem to do it to be naughty, she's always smiling and being polite but very stubborn at the same time. My daughter did some brilliant work 2 days ago. She did some simple sums on her own and was given a sticker and a marble for the class pot. (When the pot is full of marbles, the class get a treat). After that though, she decided to sit back and do pretty much sod all for the rest of the day. [sad] Her teacher said that positive re-enforcement dosn't seem to work with her and nor does keeping her in at break as she dosn't seem to mind. I'm not sure what we can do about this. She is capable of far, far more than she's willing to do in class. She is also quite non compliant at home most of the time and everything seems to be an uphill struggle some days, then other days she's as sweet and helpful as anything. There dosn't appear to be any pattern in this either. It's so frustrating after she's had such a good start. She's come home now and got out her paper and pens and has written lines and lines of random letters, just for fun. She just dosn't like being told what to do I think. Which isn't good at school. I'd be really greatful of any sugestions. [smile]