A child with a Gifted Mind

Caculating the number of vertexes, edges and face of solid shapes.

It has been a great struggle for me to figure out whether or not to accelerate Shane's grade level or add just grade level enrichment activities.   At times I feel like I am on a boat by myself because there are so few resources or educational road maps for gifted kids.  I have spent hours upon hours researching curriculum, posting questions on various blogs and on my home schooling coop forums and to my dismay, little or no feed back is provided.  I teeter tooter between two thoughts, one being he is just "six" so he just needs to play and enjoy life and the other being God has ordain him to be gifted for a reason so his talents should not be waste. 

From outsiders or persons unknowledgeable about gifted children, it appears you are pushing your child too fast or too hard.  Trust me, I have those comments enough, and I just grin and smile at  how naive they are, because the true fact is, a gifted child pushes their parents or educator too hard and too fast.  I have been woken up in the middle of night with thought provoking questions from a five years old, now six,  all too often to know this fact to be true.  There is no off switch for a child with a gifted mind.

Last Sunday, I "think" I finally came to some decisions regarding which direction I want to take with Shane.  I am going to let him fly.  I am going to let him accelerate as much he wants to and possible can.  I took a tiny step in that direction by moving him up to the 1st /2nd grade class at church.  Before last Sunday, he has been bouncing back and forth between the Kindergarten class and 1st/2nd grade class.  He is ready; in all honesty, he has been ready for quite sometime.