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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a vote for stepping up your involvement temporarily.

Sometimes when someone transitions from an environment in which one has found it relatively easy to succeed, into one in which it isn't, one has trouble making the adjustments while maintaining the confidence that it can be done.  He probably will figure it out himself but in the meantime the costs of letting him do so entirely on his own might not be worth it.  What he might need at this stage is a little assistance raising his game for the new environment, after which once a successful pattern is established he'll feel more confidence and comfort in handling it all himself.

I conclude this based on my own life -- I was a successful perfectionist in elementary school and later in high school.  I had a rough transition to middle school (Lord of the Flies environment) and college (trouble handling workload and big forward leap in difficulty).  I never did figure it out on my own in middle school and was saved only by escape into a more benign high school.  In college I ultimately did but only after 2 years of struggle and falling badly behind.

In retrospect having someone step in with a little guidance before things got out of control for me might well have kept me on the straight and narrow.[/quote]

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