I'm looking to hear other people's experiences. My daughter is a deep-thinker, very intelligent - but slow to get skills. She seems to need to mentally understand the skill before she can make her body do it. She'll be the last to get a skill, but the first to make the skill look pretty. The traits that have always made her stand out as the little kid with pointed toes and meticulous technique now seem to be holding her back as other kids are getting skills (albeit imperfectly) and she's not. I've always seen this as a GOOD thing - I'd rather have her take longer to get a skill and do it correctly (and safely) than just be flipping carelessly. BUT all her friends have been "getting" skills left and right, and she's not. And she notices, and is starting to get discouraged.
Some days it seems like she's getting left behind - for instance, everyone else has a particular skill, so no time gets allotted to practicing it anymore, and my daughter still doesn't have it- and isn't likely to get it soon if it isn't being drilled.
So anyway, it's not really something I'm worried about, exactly - we have lots of years left and she's young. But I'm curious to hear what others have experienced and if you have kids like my daughter, what their journey looked like.
Some days it seems like she's getting left behind - for instance, everyone else has a particular skill, so no time gets allotted to practicing it anymore, and my daughter still doesn't have it- and isn't likely to get it soon if it isn't being drilled.
So anyway, it's not really something I'm worried about, exactly - we have lots of years left and she's young. But I'm curious to hear what others have experienced and if you have kids like my daughter, what their journey looked like.