Originally Posted by inky
Originally Posted by DorothyS
Do any other gifted kids really lack the drive to want to work all day and would rather have free time/play time?
I sympathize with your predicament and this has been one of the issues that has made me seriously think about homeschooling. Unstructured free/play time is essential to my daughters. That's why it's so important to me that, when they are given structured school work, it's appropriately challenging. Otherwise it becomes the worst of both worlds where children are overworked but under-challenged.

This is exactly why homeschooling is working so well for us. DS8 was not open to afterschooling. But did not learn anything last year in school. Both my kids need and crave a lot of unstructured time.