Reading a message on a parenting forum from a mum asking how she can get her nearly 5 year old to do colouring in. He’s very good at it, when he does do it, but he doesn’t ever want to do it, and she knows he needs to get doing it so that they can assess him properly at school as lots of maths problems need him to colour things in etc. Gah! It’s things like that that make me more determined than ever to not send the girls to school - I guess if he doesn’t colour in at school, then he either gets labelled as un-cooperative or it’s assumed he’s not capable. Talk about deadening a child’s eagerness to learn and enjoy life