As Dh says, She thrives on learning, if shes not she is miserable. That is just her. Today as soon as we got home from the appointment, DD decided to measure the house using herself as a unit, and had me come along and use popscicle sticks to mark each unit, then she figured out how big each room was. Next she wanted to watch a movie, but on the screen it said ENGLISH FRANCIS ESPANOL, and DD said "I want to watch the movie in Spanish, please click on Espanol. I want to learn Spanish and this is one way I can. I may get a little confused but I know the story of this movie." She then proceeded to watch the almost 2 hour movie completely in Spanish, figuring out words as she went.
Okay, tell me how I am supposed to stop that and slow her down!!!!!!!!!
I am so confused.
Okay, let me start by saying that I don't agree with the psychologist about not doing the academics and not answering her questions fully. But, there is a small part that I do agree with. My DS6 is a PG child and always chooses academic type stuff. While I realize that he could probably be doing calculus now if I focused on the academic stuff, I choose to do other things often too. Like the things you mentioned above. That is very much things that my DS would do. I don't consider those things going up the academic ladder, but just academic type things that these kids crave and love. If my DS6 asks though, I answer the questions (although lately we have to look up answers to his questions as I don't have most of them anymore). DS6 too would be miserable without more information. But I may choose things like Chess, piano, learning sign language, random languages, binary numbers, logic games, strategy games, etc... instead of just going straight up the academic ladder. Does that make sense? I am not saying there is anything wrong with teaching things that will be taught in school and my son loves doing academic type stuff, and I answer his questions, but I just don't typically teach him new skills like that that will be covered in school. There are lot of things that provide lots of learning that will probably never be covered in school. I hope that makes sense, I see nothing wrong with following their strong lead with academics...but I also haven't gone above and beyond teaching new things that will be covered in school. You can't slow them down, just keep following her lead like you have been.
