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From: Welches on 11 Dec 2006 10:25 "Chookie" <ehrebeniuk(a)fowlspambegone.com.au> wrote in message news:ehrebeniuk-6D64D9.17515609122006(a)news-vip.optusnet.com.au... <snip> > >> The manipulation >> that anxious kids employ in order to control their >> world so that they don't have to face situations that >> concern them is more subtle and parents often >> think something else is going on and basically coddle >> the kid, enabling them to continue to avoid things >> that concern them. > > What sort of things did you avoid as a kid? I couldn't work out how to > avoid > maths or PE! Never wanted to avoid maths, but any PE (athletics) I wanted to avoid was easy. In the first year I arranged my violin lesson over it. Set it in the middle and I just had time to get changed have my lesson, keep the teacher talking afterwards then change again. I wouldn't have got away with it for an academic lesson though! Second year I was put in the non-athletic group. But all the rest of the tennis team were in the athletic group. So I innocently suggested that I ought to practice with my partner-so I did tennis both lessons rather than just one. Third year one of my friends was diabetic and we worked out a system where we would just about jog down to the far end of the field then make a carefully controlled comment about her sugar levels dropping and we were sent back to school together. Fourth year the teacher didn't bother to make me. I'd arrive to athletics and the teacher would say "I think they need an extra for the tennis group-Debbie could you help them!". It helped that I was by far the best at tennis so I think they were willing to compromise me doing athletics (at which I was spectacularly bad) to encourage my tennis. Debbie |