Hi Everyone,
Grinity I understand that you are trying to help and that you have learned from experience with your son. I do take everyone's suggestions to heart and am looking for ways to expand her experience. She is eager to go to preschool this morning, meanwhile, I am looking for other options. A majority of the programs are filled up at this point in the year. Her preschool is large and I just found out there is another boy in another class who is reading at the second grade level so I asked the director if they could be put in the same class so they could work together and my hoping he is also very advanced and she she said it was too late in the year--ah, they have had ONE CLASS. I am exhausted, so I am looking for somewhere she can go during the day a couple times a week for a few hours. Having someone come here, just won't work knowing me and knowing her. The local public preschool is an option, but 50% of their population is learning delayed so I wasn't sure if that was a great idea, but the teachers are more highly trained and they said they would be able to ramp things up for her, but I guess I was worried that classroom energy would go to children with real challenges rather than an advanced student. Some days I think I am making too big a deal of things since she says she wants to go to her class today, it is only a few hours three days a week, and well, I never even went to pre-K, had parents who had no interest in academics, and I went to very good schools including Harvard for my masters, but yes, I had many, many problems in school and was considered a "behavior problem" and even dropped out before getting back on the horse and kicking academic butt and top schools with little effort. I want to do the right things for her, but on the other hand, I don't want to be obsessed and worry too much either.
