Hi to all.
I have been homeschooling my 7yo DYS since October and it's... just not going that great.
Some of you probably remember me from last year, when he suddenly went from the gifted/overexcitable kid so many of you have to, well... bonkers-- then back and forth-- until he was finally diagnosed with an autoimmune condition related to chronic strep that was causing swelling of part of his brain.
I pulled him out of school after two weeks this year to protect his health (school looks like a huge microbe pit to me now) and also because he is such an unusual kid.
But sometimes I literally sit up in a panic in the middle of the night when I realize how little work he is actually doing.
Every day when it's time to settle in to do something productive, he starts whining/avoiding etc and I often have to shout at him to get him to do anything.
He already seems to know everything I try to introduce as subject matter. Sometimes we play trivial pursuit and I am shocked at what he knows. He knows e v e r y thing.
But he hates writing and doing math problems.
I am afraid I am sabotaging any chance he might have to develop reasonable work habits. It's just too hard to get him to do what he doesn't want to do.
Often he spends whole hours lost in a fantasy world, narrating elaborate story lines to himself... and this fantasy world seem to be a very important place for him to be, so I often let him stay there-- a mental-health luxury he would not have in school-- but am I just giving in to his obsessional tendencies?
I don't want to send him back to school, because there's no way he could sit in a regular second grade at this point... and then there's all those microbes... and the overcrowded NYC classrooms... but he's definitely not "reaching his potential" either.
Advice?
