<p>That’s kind of been my point here a bit. Do you let a natural talent do their own thing or do you look down the road for them and make them develope the habits for 5,10 or lifetime from now? </p>
<p>Now both my K’s work very hard now, but early on one didn’t have to and one needed extra help to get rolling. The path the older was on certainly could be alot worse than now except for a teacher who saw the bigger picture. My D, like your D, never probably had the luxury of phoning it in. Plus her B made it look so easy for a while that she be damned if he was going to beat her. extra incentive. </p>
<p>Except for a change in district math programs to comply with NCLB, she might have passed him on the SAT’s rather than finish 20 points (1 or 2 questions) below him. His math program was better suited for the SAT, hers a few years later, was about getting out of HS, not going to college. Alot of holes that “now” they are starting to address.</p>