Hi Luka,
We live 2 blocks from elementary school, and I would Jayson halfway there when he started kindergarten at age 5, just to watch him cross the street, but then when he was alone, he would dawdle, sit on the ground, and not go the rest of the short way there! One day it was really windy so I walked with him but he let go my hand and the wind blew him into a prickly bush, I just laughed and laughed!! He took off like a kite! I STILL laugh about it!
What I teach him now is mostly about women, to be careful of his wallet, and be aware of the intelligence or lack of it if choosing a partner someday. Too smart or too stupid of a partner can be a lifelong disaster!! Level-headedness and caution about money or other peoples plans for YOUR money is extremely important.
Jayson does not realize that he has major talent, and I'm not saying that because I'm his Mommy. Since about age 3, he would suddenly NEED paper and pencil to draw something that was inside his head, IMMEDIATELY before the thought escaped him. Then when he started to learn how to write at age 5 or 6 in school, he would be SO neat and exact with the way he made the letters, it was so important to him that everything that came from his hand was the way he wanted it to look, or he'd erase and re-do it, even if it was just alphabet letters. He put so much pressure on himself, the teachers and I just expected childish scribbles, he expects perfection from all his markings on the page.
When I was in school (Catholic school) in the 1970's we weren't allowed to make ANY marks on the paper margins. But my kids went to public school in the 1990's and Jayson drew doodles all over the blank spaces of his homework and his teachers would make notations that he SHOULD attend art school, they never said he shouldn't doodle on his work.
He doesn't believe that most people can't make a perfect circle with a pencil, he puts full effort into perfection of circles and everything, he draws cartoons of tiny details, facial expressions, swivel chairs with wheels and the cogs that hold the wheels onto the base of the chair, and 3-D imagery, background details that look farther away from the forefront drawings...
I like his drawings so much that some of them are in view of visitors to our home and they may think he draws offensive cartoons with somewhat offensive captions, but he's a boy, that's what boys do, and I'd rather have someone who has talent and a sense of humor and draws and writes instead of going out smoking, drinking, and making life mistakes.
ANYWAY! I have been in awe of his talent since he was a tiny child. BUT being an "artist" as many people have said he IS, not that he could be, IS...he refuses to be told what to do, when to do it, of course, and that's what he'd have to face in art school. He thinks of it as going to a dusty boring place or a tomb in which he wouldn't find a way out.