Mr. Smartypants, Look Out Below!

This morning as I was waisting time sitting at my computer, not looking at much of anything at all so the room would stay very still and would stop spinning. I hate this feeling – every movement of my eyes and blink of my lids makes the room start to shake and move rather quickly from one side of my head to another again and again until I get nauseated with the desire to be “put down” out of my misery. Mog and Goro wanted to know what they should do next, as they had completed what school work I had given them up to that point. I told them to take a break for about 30 minutes so I could just sit with my eyes shut and enjoy the stillness. CowBoy (3 years old) asked if he could play on the “comp-ooter”. Mog volunteered to do it with him so I said yes. She asked him which game he wanted to play. His response, “I want to login to TVSkids dot orc.” I OKed this and once there he wanted to play SmartyPants (as one of his favorite shows is Between the Lions). The game: which one of three words can be made out of the one larger word they show. Go play it yourself to get a feel for it. Let me pause to say that after she clicked through to the correct web page for him she let him have the mouse and she left the room. I was watching from the rocking chair as he played. My CowBoy (remember, he’s 3) got every answer of four games correct.

He easily has no problem accomplishing Kindergarten level work either, correctly, and quickly. He has begun writing his name as well. He asks me to do his numbers, his letters, his “lip poppers”, and his phonogram work every day. While I worry about pushing him and letting him be just three, I also worry that as they are such sponges at this age it is best to let him lead his learning way. He knows what he wants to learn and I see no reason to hold him back as long as I do not push him ahead.