OH the joy of really "getting it "

I have been thinking a lot about My son's WALNA test results, which were very bad. I have also spoken to quite a few teachers (friends) over the holidays, and I think I have worked it out.
I come froma family of writers, my grandmother used to write, she loved poetry, and always said if she hadn't been stuck on a farm in SW WA, she would have been a famous writer, I won awards for my poetry in primary school, and also wrote a children's story which was to be published in yr 6.
My cousin is an award winning playwright.
When I write, I write very fast, with little structure or logic, but the ideas just come out like a great waterfall. I always struggled in high school with essays that had to be so so.
Lachlan is like me, he has the same strengths and weaknesses in his learning abilities that I had.
What I have learned, is that writing is now taught with an emphasis on structure and composition.
I felt this was probably not playing to his strength, but never the less, I challenged im to write a short story a night.
When I asked him to get started tonight, he tried to put it off, and said I don't have time, I have to plan the characters and settings, and it takes too long.
I could never have written like that, totally stifling the creative process.
It was like a total light bulb moment.
I sat down with him and told him about the family gift for writing, I explained to him the joy it brings when you can write and write and write without having to "think" about it.
I told him to just write from his heart, and let all the words fall out, don't worry about spelling, or characters, just write.
The look on his face of absolute releif was palpable, he was so happy, he is sitting by me still writing, and he has already used up 3 pages in the time it has taken me to write this.
I feel so proud, and I have tears streaming down my face.
I got it !.