Frustration

Frustration seems to be going around today.

Poor Gracie is so tired. She is crying because she is frustrated she can't put a puzzle together. On an ordinary day she would keep trying, but this evening she is tired and just doesn't seem to have the patience and confidence.

It killed me to stand back and encourage her to try. But, we have more of a daily problem of mommy doing everything for her. I am trying harder to stand back and make her try things before I come to the rescue, or she will never learn perseverance.

When she gets overwhelmed like this I try to get her to walk away and take a few breaths, or do something else; then come back to it. No dice. She is very stubborn, and has to finish what she starts. I can't imagine where she got that from :)

PS: After a few minutes of her crying, I made her try again, and then I came over and helped her. I didn't do the pieces for her, but we talked about what part of the animal it could be and where it should go. Thankfully Daddy came home not too long after I snapped this picture and we were able to stop for dinner. This is one of those cube puzzles that has a different puzzle on each side of the blocks, and she kept doing a different one after she finished the last!

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