So what do I do with a kid like this?... I honestly don't know. Generally speaking, I subscribe to the philosophy that children should play as much as possible-- I would have sent my ds to a waldorf school if I hadn't realized that it would be a disaster for a kid who needs LOTS of rules and whose brain is on fire...
I guess I need DYS to help me with this. You guys mention programs (Rightstart, etc) but I have never tried any of these. Partly, I don't think 6-yr-olds should be tutored (lots of parents here in NYC have tutors for their kids who don't need them, just so their kids will be perceived as "ahead" of the other kids), but something clearly needs to be done here... I foresee lots of battles of will, tears, etc if I try to force him to overcome these things that are difficult for him. But if I don't, the same things will happen that's happened at his school-- his teacher just lets him do whatever he wants, which is read in the back of the room-- and he participates only in what interests him. As a result, he has an incredible body of knowledge (last night over dinner he told me all about Copernicus and Galileo)-- but, he has no work ethic at all.
