Anonymous wrote:Our DD is a perfectionist, to the point of it becoming debilitating. We are working through it with her, but the past month has been extremely challenging for her. As we get ready for school to end and camp to begin, I'm wondering how we address this issue with camp/new people? I don't envision that the young camp counselors are going to be trained to deal with her meltdowns and I can already see the eye-rolling if I explain in advance that I have a gifted child who is extremely sensitive (well, my in-laws did so and my in-laws were educators before they retired). I also don't want them afraid for her to be at camp. She really might do just fine; we didn't have any isuses at all last summer, and, until recently, we haven't had any issues at her after school activities. But, as I said, the past month has been rough, and one of the teachers at her after school activity pulled me aside to ask whether my child truly wanted to be there, b/c she has such frequent bouts of crying.
The teacher might have been hinting that you should take your child out of the activity because she is being disruptive. (Maybe she is tired out by the end of the day.) Regarding camp, sign up your DD for half day, and if yo udo talk to a counselro, just say that she is sensitive and gets upset easily. Like "This might not happen, but my DD sometimes gets upset easily because she is sensitive." Dont' say the gifted and perfectionist thing. The counselors are teens, not therapists or parents.
|
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}