A Little Epiphany - (and a newbie delurking)

[Dia]

H and I are currently ignoring the kidlet who is in full-blown tantrum mode. His previous school had not yet taught cursive handwriting. His new school taught it two years ago and now expects everyone to write in cursive. So we've been working on cursive at home. This morning was the first where he was supposed to do a particular assignment in cursive, and he is having a meltdown over it.

Now that the meltdown is in progress, H feels that we can't back down and need to ignore the tantrum. My position is that a stressful and unpleasant task which is already known to provoke balky behavior should not be saved for the morning when everyone is getting ready to go out the door.

Sigh.

I absolutely do not approve of the tantrum, but this was so preventable.