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Originally Posted by ocd5mom
I have a bright and gifted child as well...her OCD makes it hard sometimes to teach her, but she is very intelligent. She is only 5 but is reading, and doing other curicula on a first grade level, but her math is advanced to a second grade level. She is home schooled for both these reasons...I have found that she flourishes when I set a challenge and allow her tofind the answer on her own...i also try to get her to do things that she normally would do, but I give her an added challenge to go with it...her OCD and love of learning pushes her to try harder and find new ways to learn. Its worked for us, but it may not work for everyone.
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I wish I could afford to home-school! We both have to work full time to afford a house&food
I do my best to set him challenges and find it is the best strategy for otherwise 'boring' situations, like shopping, he has a list to find things on, and brings them to the trolley (it is a small town, and I never let him out of eyesight). Also when paying he will go and count the baskets for a little while before I hand him a light-ish bag to carry. Since I started implementing those things he has been a different child!!!
Thanks all, will keep an eye on here in case any other interesting views/comments appear, and update you on how the meeting with the school goes (I have to find time to arrange it when I a m not working
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There are definitely some areas that are much more outstanding than others, for example geography is fantastic, but his maths is only a year or two ahead of himself. His language skills (I am teaching him french, and hope to pay for a tutor in mandarin) are fairly average. Its funny, he was slow to start reading, he only really read well from about 5-6 (they start at 4 nationally here) but suddenly went from below average to way up there in the last year and a half. I think he might be the kind of learner who has to build some understanding then suddenly jumps ahead in leaps.