@QasimRashid
Sign him up for a camp or after school class dad!!

This is amazing. I wish my parents would have found ways to nurture the things I was passionate about.

You should be so proud to be raising such an intellectually curious kid. 🥰

@QasimRashid I was homeschooled and I taught myself to code while my dad was talking to customers.

Knowing how to code has served me much better than the "education" I was skipping out on did.

I use my coding in my work today.

All I use the racist history lessons I learned for is to recall that I learned about the Montgomery Bus Boycott from a movie, not from my history textbooks.

@QasimRashid
Parent here of a sharp-as-a-tack kid who's deciding to drop out of college. NO idea what to tell you. Maybe "don't have kids until you're sure"? But even that isn't necessarily valid.

Yes, tooting to myself, so what?

@QasimRashid I spent most of my time in high school marking up listings in class, rushing to the nearest university campus, running my cards through, catching the last bus home and doing the same the next day.

Half a century later pretty much the same story. Rock on, kid.

@QasimRashid parenting. You’re doing it right.

That said, he should read Huckleberry Finn. 😉

@QasimRashid I was this kid.

I learnt to type because I'd have to wait for everyone to go to bed and get up and jump on the computer. I couldn't turn lights on because I'd get caught.

When I wagged, I'd go to the city library and catch up on assignments.

When I wasn't sleeping or on the computer, I was reading and I only slept a few hours each night.

Even when I had lost interest in a class, I'd use the time to do homework for other classes (leaving me more reading time).

@QasimRashid just remind him that life is balance & he needs both.
That what he’s learned in school gave him the ability to read about his passion.

Also…bravo that he’s found his “flow” at 9yrs 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽

@QasimRashid yeah I don't want to pretend to know more about parenting than you, but Mark Twain was talking about power structures and systematically untold stories. I don't think he would feel good about your son alienating himself and not following directions.

I only say this because *I* did that. I thought because my reading level was so high, I was just exempt from the curriculum, and you know what? I let myself down because the stuff taught in a third-grade classroom has to come first.

@QasimRashid when I was 10, I used to carry around a composition notebook which my nerdy friend and I would fill with Commodore-64 BASIC to type in later. Thirty-some-odd years later, it’s served me well!

But it might have been a good idea to actually do school work at the time, too...

@QasimRashid Reminds me of how confused I used to get when my eldest would ruin his appetite for dinner by pigging out on healthy veggies and fruit all afternoon. You kinda can't get mad, but it still ruins dinner. :-P

Just remember there are much worse parenting woes out there.