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[quote=Anonymous]Today my seventh grader saw me look things up twice that I didn't know. She overheard me tell my friend "I've been really thinking about what you said about hope last week," so she knows I ruminate over things I've heard.

She gets straight A's. I put no pressure on her. I try to give her the tools to succeed. Last week she stayed up until 2 or 3 am working on a science project that had started out shaky (another boy stole her idea). It looked awful when I checked in to make sure she had all the supplies she needed, and still awful when I brought her a snack. But she got an A on it. The only thing I asked was if her teacher knew she worked on it without parental help.

It's like when kids are babies and you think "Stimulate, stimulate" and you keep trying to stimulate their minds. You keep doing that as they're older, and encourage them to problem solve and seek out knowledge.

DD has never done extra Kumon type stuff. I only made her re-do homework in elementary school when I genuinely couldn't read her handwriting. When I know she has a test I ask if she'd like help studying. That's it.

FYI, she got B's mostly in elementary and complaints that she talked too much and interrupted and didn't let other kids talk. She wasn't great about taking pride in her work. Sixth grade something clicked deep inside her and she's had all A's since last year. [/quote]

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