Is it possible to have a bright child and not be a pushy parent?

[Enid]

What happens if you just leave your bright child to get on with it? Do you HAVE to do extra work with them at home or lobby the school for G&T?

Ooh - what is her name?

Friendly edjit!!! We could be a clique! Oh, maybe not because then we would have nothing to say to each other in RL.

When hell freezes over and pigs fly....

LOL re a clique - I've waited years on here to be in one of those[hijack over]

I have a bright dd. I let her get on with stuff. I do not push at all.

I organise stuff if she wants to do it (so she nagged me for piano lessons for 6 months, at which time I organised them) She does Brownies, she does yoga, she does drama, all because she asked to do them (tbh they are all a bit of a pain for me as we get stuck in traffic).

She has a big box of 'crafty' stuff, she played computer games and watches TV. Your basic bog standard kids stuff.

when she wants an answer to a question she asks me, and I tell her. So we have covered a fair chunk of the GCSE biology course, but this is as and when she wants to know.

I let her be a kid.

She may well always be clever. She is only going to be a kid for a short time.

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Rather than worrying about school, isn't it more important to ensure that the child has the equipment and confidence to seek and extract the most our of the world around them? e.g. I have taught my youngest two to read early so taht they can play things like Top trumps, read a recipe book, read the rules of Cluedo when their big brother tries to hoodwink them, look up a bird in the handbook after they've just seen one in the woods etc. If that means I'm a pushy parent them so be it. Can't see what role worksheets can possibly have in any one's life other than to squash all sense of fun out of an activity.

I don't think I could leave ds to just "get on with it" at present because he's only 4, so if he wants to know how an xray machine works, or what a word in a book says, or why 3+1 and 1+3 are both 4 then 90% of the time there is only me to ask.

However teaching a older bright child how to learn, organise their time and extend themselves is time well spent IMO.

Kerry mum you are so lucky getting a class skip, DS is oldest, biggest, noisiest in class and was reading fluently etc at end of reception year so it is just his birth certificate that keeps him in year 1. Funnily enough still sending him home with ten word per page books!