Maybe if you weren’t criticizing your 4 year old she’d be more comfortable “performing” for you.

There he goes critiquing her ability to count to 10 when she’s trying her best to prove herself.She can count to 20 no problem. She can count to 10 in both French and Spanish no problem. When someone says “let’s count to 10” then they start counting for her it makes her less confidant on her own abilities. So tells him to stop, and she picks up counting by 2s.No one taught her to count by 2 for the record.She got to 16 when the number was 8. I was just impressed she count by 2s on her own, instead he says “No do it right.” Then proceeds to argue with me that she’s counting wrong, even though technically you never said don’t count by 2.She does when she feels insecure about her ability to do something. She intentionally does it “wrong” because she second guesses her own abilities.This happens with just about everything, her ability to identify letters and words, her ability to trace or colour, her ability to pronounce words.He literally leaves her feeling wrong and helpless because he dedicates all of his parenting time to correcting her by shutting her down instead of working with her.I want to homeschool her, because I know she’s capable of so much more than the school board can offer her, and he’s trying to diminish my confidence in her and myself by diminishing her own confidence in herself.I don’t need advice, I don’t need help. I need to rant because I’m short fused and need it out of my system to avoid starting this argument in front her. Thanks to anyone taking the time read, don’t worry about commenting you don’t have to. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2S1M60T