T, who just turned 10, is currently reading Ender's Game for the first time and absolutely loving it. It's clearly the right book at the right time for him
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For the mathematically inclined, pre-algebra isn't really that hard. If he's solid on his division and his fractions, there's no reason to stop him from knowing more, especially if it's in "Life of Fred" where Fred always has a reason to use what he's doing
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We did ALEKS for a while several years ago. It did an excellent job of letting the kids (just D and T at the time) speed through a bunch of stuff they were more than ready for, but once things started getting challenging, it didn't do nearly a good enough job of teaching - if I'm going to use a computer learning program, I'd like it to actually do the teaching - and allowed the kids to get in over their heads by allowing them to prove "mastery" of topics they really hadn't mastered yet and never really reviewing anything. I think it would probably work really well as a summer review of the previous year's material, , but I wasn't impressed with it as a stand-alone
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I feel like I should eventually ask a bunch of you slightly-ahead parents for educational insights. We have no plans for homeschooling (I don't know that we could manage that even if we were tempted, with all of the collegeschooling that we spend our days doing), but it might be nice to hear about any fun at-home supplements in case certain topics catch P's interest down the road. (Right now, at age three, we're mostly just enjoying the chance to encourage her to explore and think about things. We've paid relatively little attention to milestones beyond the basic "yeah, she's clearly doing fine" level. I really don't know what's typical, on any axis.)
For us the challenge with Peter is keeping him balanced and living up to his potential. I'm sure you've read the summaries of the studies that say, "Don't tell kids their 'smart' because then they'll try to do easy things well to please you and show you how smart they are. Tell kids they 'worked hard' at something in order to encourage a growth mindset so that they'll work hard at other things in the future
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