I often avoid talking about what DS can do and where he really is academically. However, if I start to get a lecture from a well-meaning stranger about how I'm so wrong to have accelerated DS, I do point out that academically he needs to be in second grade and so it was a compromise to have him in first.
For the most part, I just try to avoid these conversations when possible. I'm hoping when DS is older it will get easier. Right now it's still shocking to people in stores when he reads the signs or asks about something on a magazine. I figure it's because they don't expect him to be reading at all. When he's older, I'm guessing they won't notice that he's reading X levels above. He'll just look like a kid who is old enough to read, so no big deal.
LOL We should get our boys together they sound like a good match! Even down to the placed in 1st as a compromise.
I do try to avoid the subject, but when it comes up I use the grade instead of the age. He really does look 5 so he still gets the looks when he reads in public, but generally if I say he's in first they just figure he looks young for his age...
