Thank you Grinity for the validation. I am thrilled to have found this forum. And I appreciate how each post is treated with so much love and respect. I have a lot to learn, and there is a ton of information on this site.

We are in the middle of multiple transitions -- moving from Montessori to traditional, skipping a grade, deciding math placement. And of course we're looking at a few schools.

The conferences sound interesting. And now you've given me "permission" to go, I won't feel like such an impostor. smile

It would be eye opening to see dd with a group of kids more like her.