I was discussing the challenges of getting Oldest Son to do his homework with someone yesterday. He suggested that I try using a more Socratic approach, and ask Oldest to tell me how he's going to figure out a problem, or how he's going to get his homework done if he doesn't work on it now.
I tried it last night, and it worked pretty well. Then I tried it again tonight, and it didn't go so well. He was having trouble with a math problem, and he didn't like the way that I solved it. He was absolutely convinced that I was wrong, and that he knew the correct way to do it. So I had him try to solve it his way. He couldn't get the right answer. I showed him my way, and that I could get the right answer. He still insisted that I was doing it wrong. He got really worked up. We locked horns for a while, then I managed to disengage.
I said that I wanted him to show me tomorrow night how his teacher told him to solve it. By this time he was so worn out that he went to bed, around 8:30.
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