Comments on: Parents evening http://www.dellah.com/mild/2006/10/20/parents-evening/ May contain scenes of mild peril Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:48:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Hg http://www.dellah.com/mild/2006/10/20/parents-evening/#comment-2 Hg Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:47:16 +0000 http://www.dellah.com/mild/2006/10/20/parents-evening/#comment-2 <i>"However, this isn’t just a thing she has got wrong. Her teacher is sure she knows how to do it properly, she just doesn’t want to. When told about it, she will just smile."</i> Heh, this sounds <i>so</i> familiar. More than one of my nieces/nephews exhibit the same kind of single-minded stubbornness. One does a similar thing with letters, except he does his letter "s" the wrong way round (i.e. mirror image). Whenever he's corrected, his answer is always <b>"Yes, but this is the way that <b>I</b> do it."</i> Another insists on using the wrong names for things or people, with a smirk on her face that dares you to correct her. If you do, she blatantly argues you down. She is right, no debate. “However, this isn’t just a thing she has got wrong. Her teacher is sure she knows how to do it properly, she just doesn’t want to. When told about it, she will just smile.”

Heh, this sounds so familiar. More than one of my nieces/nephews exhibit the same kind of single-minded stubbornness.

One does a similar thing with letters, except he does his letter “s” the wrong way round (i.e. mirror image). Whenever he’s corrected, his answer is always “Yes, but this is the way that I do it.”

Another insists on using the wrong names for things or people, with a smirk on her face that dares you to correct her. If you do, she blatantly argues you down. She is right, no debate.

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