7 year old daughter, rushing in class and making careless mistakes
by Bec
(USA)
I have a 7 year old daughter, whom is EXTREMELY bright! Her reading level is off the charts. At her school, the reading score for a typical 2nd grader is between 18-20, my daughters score was 381 !!! i dont even know how that is possible! however, lately she has been slacking off on her classwork. spelling words that she has studied nightly during the week, she spells them wrong on her test. when i go over her papers, i will say the word aloud and ask her to spell it, and she spells it correctly for me! but spelled it wrong on her test. usually she will leave out a letter, that she knows goes there, but she's rushing to finish her work. She will have tests that cover things they have been doing in class, and when she turns the page, she wont look to see if there are problems on the back side (and there ARE) so she skips them and gets them marked wrong because she is rushing. simple math problems, again, where i ask her to solve it for me and she gets it correct, she is getting these wrong in class because of misplacing a number. or she sees that there are two quarters, and writes that there are two quarters, but only adds one in her addition problem. ive been battling this for a couple months now. when i sit down and talk to her, she openly tells me that, "im rushing", but wont tell me why. promises me that shes going to pay more attention and slow down. but on every friday when i get her classwork from the past week, it seems to be getting worse and worse. i have always held her education as a high priority. shes extremely intelligent and knows it. she gets consequences, good ones for good work/behavior and bad ones for bad work/behavior. i dont believe she is "acting out to get attention" because she is an only child and the center of mommy (me) and daddy's world. but this problem is starting to affect her overall grades and the teacher even put on her report card that my daughter is continuously talking at inappropriate times (after being asked to stop repeatedly). so she's rushing, and wont stop talking. PLEASE, any suggestions? i feel as if im going crazy because her bad consequences are obviously not having the affect that they should and im tired of her being "in trouble" what feels like everyday/ weekend. thanks
