It's interesting that DS6's psychologist told me that half my son's behavior problems were the fact that I allowed him to "develop a personality." She said that letting him go see ducks, visit train stores and whatever else that he wanted to learn about was good for him as a person but that it worked against him learning to function in a public school.
Ah my MIL said something similar to me. I take DS to museums, we do science (chemistry and physics) at home, we watch lots of science shows....how could he not find school boring? K almost killed him w/ all the worksheets, cutting, pasting. Some kids love it, it was a noose for my poor kid.
