Re: Child Led Learning and the Unmotivated Child
Any other issues? Any ADD symptoms? I have one child who did this. Following me around for hours asking me what fun thing we were going to do today. It was so draining when I HAD to do laundry and housework that day.
He's older now and it's very obvious he has ADD and a few other things. He is extremely resistant to me trying to teach him anything that's not his idea. If he gets interested in a topic, though, whoa, he becomes a master. His coop teachers and Sunday School teachers are blown away by his knowledge base. They try to give me credit and I have to tell them it's all him. Right now he's writing his own operating system (a replacement for Windows or Linux. I'm not kidding.). But about six months ago, I was really frustrated and worried because he hadn't latched on to programming yet. Now he spends hours a day in code. I do pull him away to read SOTW and LOF to him but he mostly pursues his own interests. Which led to lessons for all the kids on binary and hexadecimal. So his education is definitely outside the box but he's an outside the box kid.
That was rambly but I hope helpful.
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