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[quote=Anonymous]DS age 10 has always been the type to get frustrated easily. He also doesn't listen when you explain something to him so it is a bad combination! Two weeks into school and we have already reverted back to the same homework issues we have every year. He gets stuck on a math problem, freaks out, won't listen to my attempts to help and starts yelling and crying that I "keep interupting him," I "don't know what I'm doing," etc. I try to stay calm but it is very hard. This year I told him that he needs to talk to the teacher when he doesn't understand something because I won't be involved if he's going to act like that. So he did ask the teacher, and it sounds like she gave him a prompt and then asked him to figure out the rest, and he orally did and she "yes"-ed him -- but when I got home from work I asked him if he talked to the teacher about the problem and he proudly said yes and then gave me the wrong answer! Which started another crying and yelling incident because he kept saying that the teacher said it was right. My main concern is that he can't handle frustration and speeds through things too quickly - this is not a good path to be on! If you have experience with this can you please give me some tips to help DS respond more calmly and carefully so he can work through difficult schoolwork. 
(My sub-problem is that the teacher doesn't seem to have noticed his mistake nor does it seem she was paying much attention to his questions - which defeats my attempts to have DS work directly with the teacher.  But I need to take that one up with the teacher ...)[/quote]

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