The thing with reading and writing (and some other things) seems to be that regardless of what you do or how you try to teach it, it quite simply will not happen til the brain is good and ready to accept it. My oldest sounds similar to your son, he was very articulate from a young age and could do quite a bit for his age, however reading was not one of them. His sister had learned to read from 5 and being a couple of years older he could see that he was missing out on stuff and he tried desperately, and we did push and try to help but no matter what we did, all English lessons either "formal" (sit down with workbooks and pencils) or informal ended in tears and tantrums. Even after I narrowed down to he was struggling with blends and we did extra work on them, nothing.
Then at 8 he was suddenly reading novels with zero transition (literally straight into the "young adult" sized novels and bigger, without going through the kids' books that we had been reading as bedtime stories), because the brain decided it was ready at that point.
Basically unless they're really stressing people out, the reading/writing lessons (probably) won't hurt but probably won't help as much as people expect/want them to ^_^;
LoL yes exhaustion, I don't drink as much as I used to when I was a teenager and I'm such a featherweight now that even taking too many sips without adequate space in between will make me feel tipsy XD
Yeah our son absolutely does things on his terms and it's a little tedious and frustrating at times but now that we've seen what happens when something clicks in that little noggin of his, it's a remarkable thing! I'm trying to get better at taking a breath when he's doing something that is wrong or intentionally not what I asked him because usually in a couple weeks he does it well and without issue. One of the small things that was a bit of a struggle and battle for him was folding socks lol. For ankle socks, we typically take the pair and fold them in on each other so it becomes a ball. He had quite a battle trying to figure that out! An hour was spent doing it one day with lots of tears and frustration. We folded clothes two weeks later and he was determined to do it and got it with some guidance and was so proud of himself he ran over and showed mum lol.
With letters he’s getting better at them but not as quickly as my wife wants. She’s a little stressed about things like that since he’s our only child and she wants him to succeed but I try to be patient and let him do things when he’s ready. We did letters tonight and he got 6 of them from random parts of the alphabet so that was good. He can perfectly go from A to Z in a row but that’s because of the song hahaha
Do you remember being a child and KNOWING for SURE that you knew better than those outdated frumpy adults? XD
Aaaahhhhhhhh XD