Hi Heather,
I'm wondering how things are going.
I was thinking that sometimes if a child has experience with preschool, then it gives a better idea of what is needed in elementary school. If he did preschool, what worked and what didn't work?
As for killing one's love of learning, I tend to see as many kids 'turned off' from being underchallenged as I do from being pushed. Noticing one's child and trying to process one's own baggage are pretty much the only way to get into the ballpark.
I'm often guilty of trying to give my child the kind of parenting that I wish I had gotten, rather than what he actually needs. (Turns out that yelling actually helps him sometimes!)
Of course, processing one's own baggage, or keenly noticing one's child isn't easy in a culture where being unusually smart is so taboo to talk about that there aren't even many words to describe the experience. We are trying to remidy that here.
Love and More Love,
Grinity
