Mom and Patrick are both in their rooms.
They each need a cool-down after this morning's
homeschool session where a writing assignment
turned into yet another war of words. Mom
thought she was being helpful by pointing out
that Patrick had forgotten to capitalize several
proper nouns in his raptor essay. Secretly, she
worried that she wasn't catching all of the
things she should to strengthen his writing
mechanics, let alone his essay writing. Patrick
had been proud of how many facts about birds of
prey he'd included, and he was mad that his mom
had noticed only the mistakes he'd made. The
resulting back-and-forth discussion, and mom's
wavering confidence, left everyone frustrated.
Sensitivity to writing criticism
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it's difficult for children to take their
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