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[quote=Anonymous]Not a lot to add, as our DD's perfectionist tendencies aren't so severe. But wanted to share one small thing / family culture change that has helped us. Specifically that our family no longer says "Practice Makes Perfect" - instead we say "Practice Makes Better." Obviously this doesn't sound as good as the original, but it came out of a conversation we had one time in response to the original phrase upsetting our child because as she said (to paraphrase) "I DID practice! And it's not perfect!" So we talked about how practice doesn't always make perfect, that noone and nothing is ever perfect anyway, that we can't always be the best, but that practice DOES make us better. It's a little thing, but it really does seem to help our daughter, so thought I would share in case it could help someone else's child too.[/quote]
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