Thank you. I'm sorry that I am defensive, and that I misunderstood deacongirl's comment. I've just been getting a lot of pressure to skip from a lot of people, and all I was asking for here were suggestions for how to make it work WITHOUT skipping... then got lots of responses about why to skip. And I may get there, but that's not what I'm looking for right now. I'm trying to make that the last resort.
Most people do.
On the other hand, if
everyone else who is familiar with your child is saying this to you--
I'd consider that is a likely set of signals I should probably heed.
As Val notes, it's not that our accelerated children have a
rushed or even
foreshortened childhood-- so much as that they have a qualitatively DIFFERENT one from 99% of other peers (both agemates and intellectual peers who may be older).
Don't write off options based on your
assumptions about what those options would translate into down the road, that's all.
