DS is 5 (turning 6 in January) and is excelling at school in pre-primary (Australia - the year before yr 1). He is very much like myself as a child - everything comes easy to him without much effort.
How do we instill the desire to do better or at least to put some effort in? I never found that as a child and even now, I struggle greatly when things don't come so easily for me as I don't really know what to do. I do not want him to grow up like me!
We changed schools for term 4 and his new teacher doesn't seem very receptive to his advanced abilities (no formal iq or ability testing as yet)- his tested reading age is 9 and his maths ability is at least on par with those kids in his class in yr 1. At the moment at school, he is able to do everything asked of him without any thought - no challenge at all. His teacher originally thought he was in yr 1 (it's a split yr1/pp class) so he was doing all yr 1 work which was great but since she realised he is in pp, she has dropped him to their grouping for everything except reading - arrghh!
