christine in al Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Hey, My son is 9 . He just filled out some cards for folks and was very sporatic with the use of capital letters. Some first names were caps, some not, no last names.. I'm concerned abou this. It seems to me that he shouldn't be even having to think about it at this point. Any thoughts? ~c in al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ekarl2 Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 It's one of two things: -He doesn't really know the rules for Caps -He knows the rules, but doesn't really care if he get them correct or not If it's #1, then I think the answer is pretty obvious. It it's #2, then you and he need to sit down and make a deal: You - I know you know to put a capital at the beginning of a sentence, use end punctuation, and capitalize names and other proper nouns (list whatever you KNOW he knows.) For this day on, if you make a mistake in these 3 (or 4, 5, 2, whatever), you will re-write the entire sentence (not fix his error, re-write the WHOLE THING). Son - okay. Here's the deal, though. You cannot bluff! You'll have to do this for a while until he FINALLY understands that it's way too much work to re-do his mistakes and it's easier to do it correctly the first time. Blessings, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 DS9 is very bright, went to ps through last year, and STILL does this here and there. It does drive me crazy and I will again need to start making him redo the entire thing when he makes 1 mistake like this. That is what I did with his dictations from school last year and there was a big improvement. Chances are your ds is not detail oriented. My ds isn't. Brownie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christine in al Posted November 16, 2009 Author Share Posted November 16, 2009 He is NOT detail-oriented He is very bright and so most things come easily, If they don't he gets frustrated and I'm afraid he is sliding toward " slackerhood" The rewrite ( and mean it) deal is a good suggestion. Will do. ~c in AL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Ahhh...I do have the same child. DH refers to him as having a pass-fail attitude. This is something my dh and I aren't familiar with. It is a constant struggle. I told ds today after he made another captalization error that he will have to redo work from now on if it happens again. Brownie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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