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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]OP here. She is not 8, she is 7. She won't turn 8 until the end of March. Unfortunately, there is little I can do to help her. She just doesn't want to work with me at all. I can't teach her anything, and she's always been that way. It's sad, but I can barely even talk to her. She is interested in her friends and that's it, and will throw an absolute fit if I try to read with her or help with homework or anything. My husband can do it, but not me. So I wish I had one of these kids that apparently people can talk to and teach things, but that's not my kid. I have to rely on the school to teach. I checked and division is not taught in 2nd grade at all. Not even multiplication.[/quote]

Your main problem is not the teacher or the work.  My son is a 7 year old second grader who just turned 7 in August - so he won't be 8 till next August.  But he would definitely never refuse to work with me to do school work or homework.  I would simply not tolerate it.  Nor would I tolerate him "barely even talking to me."  He's 7, it is my house, and I will not be treated that way.    Any and all privileges, ipad time, tv, play dates would be gone until the situation changed.  The math problem itself is somewhat difficult, and the fact that there was a seeming mistake in the problem makes it more difficult, but it is definitely something that my 7 year old second grader could ultimately accomplish with some help and guidance.  [/quote]

This works only if you have a child for whom it works. I won't dispute that OP probably needs to take a different approach with her daughter to address the behavioral issues because simply clearing away stressors isn't the best one, but what you described would be really damaging to some children. Not every child can be metaphorically beaten into submission, and OP needs to work with the child she has, not the child you think she has based on the child you have.[/quote]

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