Hiya Everyone! DD& is 150+ and possible ADHD-I or just bored and cranky about it. She is in public school and doing well but needs a LOT of supplementation after school to feed her voracious appetite! The supplementation all comes either from me or from things I've found that interest her. Sometimes I feel like all I do is look on the computer or in books for more and different ideas to keep her brain smiling!
Big changes coming in hubby's job where they might all be working 80% for the rest of this year. The whole local industry will be affected so, absent moving, we have to just "deal with it". That means I would need to pick up the slack and do more of my work (from home). I'm not sure how to accomplish that without dropping the ball on keeping DD7 stimulated.
So here's my question/problem. Do any of you have any good ideas about how we can teach DD7 to start learning more on her own, finding answers herself, etc? I was thinking of setting up a reference bookshelf for her, and also organizing her books and extras by topic, as opposed to books on the bookshelf, toys in the toybox, almost like creating individual "boxes" of topics that she can go to and immerse herself in. For the foreseeable future, we have to control what she has access to, because she has such a vivid imagination that a lot of things give her nightmares. Any ideas out there?
I'm trying to keep her curiosity and creativity alive until she gets done with school and can FLY! Thanks for any advice you have for us.
