“Can You Give Me Some Words to Spell?”

My daughter watched a cartoon today that featured a spelling bee.

After dinner, she spent time working on a “book” (really, more like a worksheet) of her own devising and wanted us to help her spell numerous words.

My wife and I are trying to teach our daughter to be a) more self-reliant and b) willing to make mistakes. The real reason she likes us to help her is because she hates if she gets the tiniest thing wrong.

So my wife and I said that she should try to spell the words herself.

Well, she did.

She spelled “words” like this: WRDS.

But she tried. And she didn’t throw a fit. And she made her own book. And she spelled the word “banjo” correctly.

And she closed the night by asking; “Tomorrow, when I get up and before I go to school, can you give me some words to spell?” Yep. Sure can. How about “GROWTH” and “MINDSET”?