I was taught to read before school, not in kindergarten, but at home. I feel like it didn't do any harm, and my reading comprehension was top of my class until

I was taught to read before school, not in kindergarten, but at home. I feel like it didn't do any harm, and my reading comprehension was top of my class until I entered high school, when I more or less stopped reading for pleasure altogether. I wasn't bored in class, because we picked our own books to read, so you could read at your own level. I think that being taught some stuff at home might have stunted the development of my time management skills, because I could always complete the work in a very small part of the assigned time. Mum had taught me some basic mathematical manipulations and "short-cuts", and I remember for a while I was ahead of the class in that too, again I wasn't bored though, because I just completed the problems quickly and then did my own thing. The problem was, when the level of difficulty caught up to my skill level again in high school, I was used to having time to muck around in class, and I never put in enough time and effort to finish the assigned work. When I eventually have kids, I'll teach them anything they ask about, or need help with, but I'm going to trust their teachers with their core subjects by default. The way I see it, the school material will be pretty straightforward, and easily remediated, but soft skills and self discipline are developed early on, and should not be interrupted for the sake of knowing how to simplify a fraction a year early. edit: Thinking about it more, it probably wasn't just my Mum that had made class too easy, the pace was probably a bit too slow for me anyway. When I entered high school, I was put into the advanced stream/track, but by that time my poor study habits were already formed. Perhaps there should have been multiple streams in primary school also.