I'll counter; this sounds like me too, and I wish my parents had been more proactive. Being unchallenged but happy at the time is possibly better than being unchallenged but unhappy at the time, but the two are equivalent in the deleterious long term problems they cause. [ETA: I probably would have been good at self-advocating, too, if there had been anything to self-advocate for; there wasn't. I was often bored, but I didn't complain because, well, because that wouldn't have been well-behaved, I suppose. Besides, there were interesting things from time to time - interesting facts for example - there just weren't any hard things, and I didn't know that was a problem until much later. I think it's OK to assume that if the child isn't complaining there isn't a problem while they're very young and playing is what they should be doing, but later than that I think that's a huge mistake.]
Last edited by ColinsMum; 10/23/12 12:39 PM.
