Naaah no genius here…just grew up babysitting my nieces and nephews who all had distinct personalities and therefore required individual attention. This gave me some much appreciated experience before I had my own daughter.
For some kids sitting at a table and chair just doesn’t work. Either they are highly intelligent and require incredible amounts of stimulation or they have trouble focusing and need some outlet for their physical energy. As parents we need to be really good at observing what they need and then we have to find a means to deliver that need while still accomplishing overall goals.
If you try the technique I used do let me know how it works out…
Btw…if there is a particular theme that interests your son, try to build that into the process. At the time that I came up with this method my nephew was completely into “ninjas”…so I made sure that the “hunt” was for some ancient artifact that had been stolen from a temple and needed to be returned…