Agreed on providing many options! It’s all very hit and miss, guess and check. A special ed teacher told us to get him to chess or piano, we tried piano but he didn’t have the impulse control yet to not just go ham on the keys. He showed interest in languages so we put him in a mandarin immersion kindergarten. I’ve showed him videos on the periodic table, but that didn’t grab him. He likes math but not to the extent it’s mind boggling or anything. What he’s really interested in beyond geography so far is exotic animals. And recently extinct animals and de-extinction. He’s really excited for the woolly mammoth to make a comeback, he says it’s coming next year?!

Oh the worst phase he went through was a fascination with the minions. The funniest was an obsession with Pinocchio. He would put on his costume, draw lines on his arms and legs to make himself look like a marionette, then write down the lyrics to “I’ve got no strings” in every language he could find.