Thanks. I think that is part of what we are experiencing. Maybe we should have considered Hollingworth again.
The advantage of living here is that we can expose her to so much. I have a subscription to the ballet for preschoolers, the Very Young People's concerts at the Philharmonic, we are going to Carnegie Hall to see Peter and the Wolf. Plus the ability to hit the museums. The advantage of learning about dinosaurs and seeing the bones regularly.
But that is what I was trying to understand. How did people supplement the preschool experience?
I guess my greatest fear, since hearing the psychologist, is that she doesn't get bad habits like I did. I am a product of 60s acceleration and enrichment. But I still didn't have to do homework. When I hit college, had to deal with a parent death, my bad habits hit home hard. I could slide through engineering, because of the math, but I didn't learn anything. I didn't develop a love of learning until much later. I liked doing math, but I didn't associate education and learning.
I see how eager she is to know things. I want to encourage that and develop her habit of sequential problem solving so she doesn't rely on the answers coming to her.
I do not know how I lost that. I know that I strongly retained the need to solve. But not to learn.
Hence, I am very eager to understand some of the things that work. I ordered both Miraca Gross' book and Ruf's book from the library. And I printed off Davidson' Advocating Exceptionally Gifted Young People. Any experience with that?
Ren
