Presley

I have figured out one of the reasons we have problems with Presley. She cries and throws a fit over everything b/c she is SO hard on herself. She hates to mess up, she doesn't want to lose, she wants to be perfect....and she can't be.
Here are some examples from just the last week.....
- she was drawing a person and accidently drew hair into her persons face. Breakdown.
- she didn't draw an 's' correctly.....those s's are hard! Breakdown, fit and throwing papers all over.
- soccer she didn't know what to do, she cried. During their 'sharks and minnows' game she got 'caught', she cried. She didn't score a goal, she cried. Well kid, you have to touch the ball and actually play if you think you are going to score!
- we were racing to kick a ball yesterday and I won.....she HAS to win.
- she was mad b/c she didn't know that 9+6 =15....which she shouldn't know! Then she was mad b/c I was right!
- she tried to step on a spider yesterday and it got away. She stomped off crying "I can't even kill a spider!"

I don't think we push her to be like this. I don't think we give her the impression that she needs to be perfect. We tell her things like soccer and games are just for fun, that she doesn't have to win. We let her know that it is ok to be wrong. UGH! This parenting thing is hard.