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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This surely is a cautionary tale. Maybe it indeed was a wrong environment for her. In our house, after 2 years of AAP I'm still waiting for a sliver of the effects described by the OP rub off on my lazy and careless son....[/quote]

I have two very different children. Both AAP. One more of a perfectionist, more anxious the other more well like the above posters comment.

If a teacher makes the comment "I need everyone to try harder" to the whole class, child number one will angst for days and internalize though the comment is rarely meant for her. Child number two would assume unless his name was specifically mentioned, it wasn't meant for him (though it more than likely was).

We try to work with child number 1 on not "dying on every hill", mindfulness and positive thinking.
Child number 2 we try and work on being more industrious and putting in more than a cursory effort.

Child number 2 is doing very well at a center. We elected to keep one at base school which has a level iv class. Different personalities need different environments to develop positively. I honestly think a center would have been toxic for child one and the base school would not have helped child 2 work on the executive functioning like he needed.[/quote]

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