“As I saw the adults treating him with more respect, and not giving him so many rules, and treating him just like a human being, he became calmer, he became more apt to care what adults were saying, and I had this sense that he really felt peace within himself. Now that I’ve been in it for a year, and just let him go, he’s asking how to multiply double digits and writing stories and reading books and seeking out knowledge, all on his own, and enjoying it. Because it’s not something that he has to do, it doesn’t give him as much anxiety.”
