Dream On - One mom's tale of understanding a dreaming child in a highly- structured world
by Cara McLauchlan

What to do with a dreaming six year old?

That was my recent request on a "please help me, I'm desperate and don't know what to do" mom's bulletin board on the Internet. It all started with a teacher's note home about my son's lack of focus in the class. This day-dreamy, state of faraway escapades is not new for my son. He always has had the ability to play by himself for hours, to create adventures from tiny pieces of paper and to conjur up imaginary space stations out of pencil erasers.


This quality, while good, does interfere with a teacher's mission to teach grammar, math equations and overall get stuff done. In my head, I appreciate that he need to pay attention and be respectful. He needs to sit quietly, soak up all the good education stuff that I'm paying a lot of money for and do what he is told. But part of me wants him to go ahead and dream.

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