big ((hugs)) to you

what you say about you and your DS resonates a lot with me with our DS9. No "advice" here - but I hear you, mama!

he will learn what he wants to learn how he wants to learn it and will exhaust the subject until he knows whatever it is to his satisfaction. And then he'll move on.

I have had to let go A LOT of what "I" thought he "should" know because it just.wasn't.working. Fighting, power struggles, tears - it has been a real ... learning process (I won't say ordeal I won't say ordeal) So, he learns what he wants. I guess you'd say we're unschooling right now and have been for the most part this last 15 months or so. Public school just didn't work after first grade (sigh)

Our family is of course our family and what we do works best for us - but you know, when he is happy, the rest of us have more attention for other things. And what he knows is prodigious!