Originally Posted by bobbie
DS4.75 is definitely an authentic learner type. He absorbs info when it is useful but equally doesn't like doing something for no apparent reason.

Aren't there domains where your son has acquired knowledge out of sheer curiosity? When my middle child was 4 and 5, he was obsessed with learning about the different types of dinosaurs, and judging by the large dinosaur section in the children's section of the library, he was not the only one.