I wonder if prepping (explaining to him in clear terms that he's ahead of the class) would have helped. The same thing happened with my DD10 - she stopped reading when she started preschool and discovered she was the only one there who could. I wonder, now, if it was because she thought maybe she wasn't supposed to be able to? (As opposed to feeling self conscious about standing out). I don't know.
I wonder if I had told her ahead of time, "just so you know... this is what you'll notice, and it's ok that you're different..." etc etc. Or whatever.
MK13 have you talked to your son about it (specifically to tell him that it's ok if he can do math the other kids can't)? It's ok... it's normal for you... there's nothing wrong with you... etc.
I don't know. I wish I had the answer...
Last edited by CCN; 02/21/13 06:10 PM.
