Our little niece is also going through this, and I was worried that I'd let slip in front of her some of the issues our dd and ds have both had...probably so, to be frank, in conversing with my sister. But whether or not this genie could have been kept in the bottle a few more months or even years is probably moot - the child is bored
Maybe even better to handle it sooner rather than later.
I admit we do sometimes handle these things by setting up little incentives for dd to get up - hey today is the day you get to go to the special class at school. Today is the day you get out early for vision therapy. Today is the day your class is going to x/y/z. Switching schools is NOT always a possibility, as in the case of our dd.
We did similar things to syoblrig, dd got an informal skip to K level when she was supposed to stay in pre-k, based on test scores and an interview with the K teacher.
