Are any of the toddlers hard on themselves?

[muppetinma]

Andrew is a perfectionist and gets upset when he's not at his best. I'm happy that we're past the PTing phase because he would get SO disappointed in himself if he had an accident. He'd also insist on cleaning it up himself. He's got a whole team of people who love and support him in everything he does, so I'm sure this all comes from inside himself. It makes me sad, but all I can do at this point is be positive and encouraging and try to roll with it. I also try and make mistakes when we're playing so we can laugh about them. I don't really know how else to show him that it's okay if you're not the best at things.

[claralou]

Yes. It's been bothering me too lately. It's mostly physical stuff with C (she has a super agile little friend who's constantly doing running somersaults, as an example. She will try and then stumble, and turn to me and say "I guess I'm not very good at this") and I cannot fathom where that's coming from. I just keep emphasizing practice and positive encouragement and hoping it goes away?

[carawestt]

Lincoln has been doing this as well. Especially when trying to dress himself. He gets frustrated and throws himself down, "I just can't do it."

[kdrake8]

Mila says that she "can't do it" a LOT when it comes to coloring/writing letters. I give her so much praise for making ANY mark with a crayon because mostly she won't even attempt.

She said the other day "im terrible". It absolutely broke my heart. Obviously I addressed it immediately but where did she even hear something like that??

[charmediamsure]

Jack generally isn't, but I have a cute story: he likes to play games on the ipad like H does--things like car racing games. One day he had picked up my iphone and was walking around with it. I thought that maybe he was playing Boggle (he likes to shake the blocks and click on letters) but he had opened the calculator. My mom called and he came over to the phone and said "I CAN'T WIN THIS GAME OF NUMBERS, NANA!" And then proceeded to walk around repeating "HOW DO I WIN?"