Oh and I think a little bit of worry is normal, it keeps our choices in check to rethink whether it is working out at times. And I do worry at times, I'll look through our photos and think oh DD1 hasn't really done much maths lately then I remember she was dividing food portions for the family or ruling out squares to cut for her tesselation art or measuring her height and DD2s and figuring out how much taller she is and I realise how much math there really is in living and exploring the world and how she enjoys figuring things out, how easily she works out what might help her do that and that those are important steps in the process, that she is learning a lot not only from using math to solve problems but identifying the problems to solve too.

But it is hard when you're doing something so unchartered, when I don't know whether they'll read at 5 or 10 it makes school look like a nice map of comfort for those things sometimes but I also think the price paid for that can be quite high. Higher than I'm prepared to risk.