Louise Agenbag

This podcast really resonated with me. I myself fit perfectly into the school system and did well, just like your eldest son. But since my son (now 8 and in Gr3) started formal schooling, teachers with grave concern in their eyes have told us that he is "falling behind" and likely to struggle later in school if we don't get him into occupational therapy and other interventions. His pre-school teacher (with 30+ years of experience) was surprised to hear this, as she thought him to be quite intelligent (as do we as parents). After loads of testing (eyesight, hearing, educational psychologist and occupational therapist), and confirmation by the educational psychologist that he is of above-average intelligence, we've scaled down the "interventions" to only a reading extra class, and he does sports (albeit not well enough to make the teams that get to play matches) because he enjoys it. His interests and dislike are, by the sound of it, much like those of your younger son. And he's consiste