I cannot summarize this article but go read it – Teaching your Child. Fascinating, some of it I knew but some of it I knew and forgot and it will be changing how we approach things. Reminds me of Charlotte Mason in that we need to let children develop skills and have time to explore at their own pace before we attempt to turn them into academics and push them faster. Let them be kids and spare all of us a lot of grief by forcing something they aren’t ready for (and maybe shouldn’t ever be ready for! I went insane trapped at a desk for hours a day in school and I would go insane if I had to do it as an adult.)