My son and his wife sat down for their daughter's kindergarten conference. She's five. Loves dinosaurs and hates shoes. The teacher pulled out a folder. She told them their daughter was showing "early signs of perfectionism-related anxiety" because she erased her drawing three times before she was satisfied with it. My son's wife is a nurse. She didn't say anything. My son is his father's child, so he asked, calmly, what the drawing was of. The teacher said, "A horse." He said, "She erased it three times trying to get a horse right?" The teacher said yes. He said, "And that's the problem." She said, "It's a pattern we like to flag early." He called me that night trying to find the sentence that made sense of it. I told him I didn't have it. I spent thirty years managing people and I always wanted the ones who erased something three times trying to get a horse right. I'm not diagnosing anything. I'm sure the teacher cares. But maybe flag the kids who don't try again. Just a thought.