Below is a partial copy from Hoagies. (Thank you Dandy)
I'm wondering if anyone has advice to this point. I have trouble know if my DS is just complaining because it is not interesting enough or if the learning just lacks the depth or challenge. He is very ambitious in his school work and very self motivated. I also see him as someone who can tolerate some boredom but has his limits.
Hoagies article:
I think there's a basic problem here that we as the parents of gifted children must come to terms with. Not all useful learning is intrinsically interesting. Our kids have a right not to be bored in that they should not be held down, but they do not have a right not to be bored such that they have a right to skip anything that isn't fun to learn. Math facts are boring. Absolutely. But that doesn't mean that our precious children who don't tolerate boredom well shouldn't have to learn them. We have to teach our kids the difference between being bored because you are being taught something you have already mastered and being bored because the work is intrinsically boring but still important. We can turn our fertile brains towards making the practice fun and interesting, if we don't tolerate boredom well, but we don't get to just declare ourselves to be so brilliant that no one should ever make us do anything we don't feel like doing.
