Intellectual stimulation is food for the mind. Understimulation is intellectual hunger. We all know that children get bratty when their bodies are hungry - the same goes for their minds. You wouldn't refuse to feed your child if he was genuinely hungry unless there was a really good reason that food was not permitted or available, like impending fasting bloodwork,for example. Sending him to school knowing that the work is not adequate to meet his intellectual hunger and doing nothing to supplement it would be like sending him to lunch with nothing but a few celery sticks in his lunch box.
Well said.
I could do hours and hours of physical activities with DS2, but only mental activities (books, puzzles, etc) calm him down.
