Minnie,
Thanks, that really is a great quote. That does ring true to our situation. I feel that we have lost our way, like Dante in the woods of his 30th year... only I'm 40 and he's 6.

We've lost our joy. I do feel like the best path is to "deschool" him and let him find his own path again. The only thing that really matters is that he gets his joy back-- obviously the stupid math worksheets don't REALLY matter.

But I get so bogged down. His reaction scares me.

By the way it is both homework and HSing stuff, though the HSing stuff is if anything a little worse. Maybe because I get angrier myself.

I could say he's just bored by the busywork of the homework, but the truth is he gets the spelling words wrong.

My husband says-- this child is not gifted, we need a different way to define gifted, because this is not it.

I guess I have just tried too hard to make him conform to what I thought he should be doing?

Anyway, I'm rambling.