I recently read a quote from Helping Gifted Children Soar, “Parenting a gifted chid is like living in a theme park full of thrill rides. Sometimes you smile. Sometimes you gasp. Sometimes you scream. Sometimes you laugh. Sometimes you gaze in wonder and astonishment. Sometimes you’re frozen in your seat. Sometimes you’re proud. And sometimes, the ride is so nerve-wracking, you can’t do anything but cry.” This is a fitting quote since we are headed up to Disney today. And also fitting because this morning I took Ethan to where he is registered for kindergarten for some testing. They told me it would be easy for him and that is how he described it. During the test, I met with the kindergarten teacher to talk about him and his educational needs. She honestly seems overwhelmed by the concept of having him in her class, given what he is already capable of and what he will be doing by the time school starts. At one point, she seemed to be encouraging me to send him to public school for kindergarten and come back to them for first grade. She told me that she and the first grade teacher and the administrator met and tried to see how they could move things around for Ethan to go to the first grade class for at least math but it looks like they won’t be able to swing it. This is disappointing but really not suprising. She is very concerned about Ethan being bored in her class and I pointed out to her that he would be bored in a public school kindergarten class as well. Unless preschool were to become legally mandatory, every kindergartener has to be treated as though they never went to preschool so that everyone can get on the same page. She did say that as long as she has an aid in her class for next year, she belieces she will be able to keep him challenged. The question is what to do if she doesn’t have an aid? I left feeling kind of worried and had to confess this to God because ultimately, Ethan belongs to Him and He has a plan for him. God will ensure that Ethan receives the training he needs for God’s calling in his life and no amount of worrying on my part will make any changes. The last few years I have constantly wavered between whether I should continue to teach Ethan at home and satisfy his desire for learning or stop doing so because the more I teach him, the more advanced he becomes. There are no easy answers or solutions and as Father Tim in the Mitford Series always said, “Pray the prayer that never fails. Thy will be done.”