<p>Again I can only share my experience.</p>
<p>We didn’t push S to take more courses since he’d been already advanced on everything among his peers. Our approach was to connect the dots and find his passion and his intellectual peers.
each summer (and from time to time) we’d work with him to get a selection of books he’s interested to read. This definitely broadened his view on things and knowledge he accumulated. Some of them he’s read couple of times “The Millennium Problems”, “Black Holes & Time Warps”, “The Elegant Universe”, medical books (influenced by his mom) and etc. He would sometimes described things with us such as what looked like when things got closer to the speed of light. And one time he had high fever when we stayed in a hotel. We had to call emergency. When the doctor asked him if he had a stiff neck. He immediately asked the doctor if he had spiral meningitis and needed to the painful treatment he read somewhere. That surprised everyone since he was 8. The point is that if kids read a lot, they will make connections and broaden their knowledge.</p>
<p>Similar to the situation that ConcernFather has now, my S was with high school student since he was 9 and everyone treated him nice. But issue was he didn’t have his peer. We tried something else on sports and he really enjoyed with his peers. The real turning point for him to find intellectual peers was when he started debate the first year in high school. I’d say that it probably consumed majority of his time, more than any course or other topic he’s ever spent time on once he tasted the furious competition and excitement on each tournament. He’s constantly on line with his debate buddies. When we did college visit last year, he would hang out with his debate friends in the city we visited. Once he had his TASP circle, he’s had couple of reunions with TASPers and they would really talk about things they were interested in and hanging out in bookstores. These circles of friends and peers are really important to him and they are competitive on the similar level.</p>
<p>Things can change and will change. We noticed that after the first year of the high school, S was dramatically changed on lots of things. He was not passionate about math anymore even though he did well and took statistics and Math VI, but wouldn’t spend any extra time on it. That’s ok with us as long as he’s still interested in learning and kept balanced.</p>