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Isn't there a secret signal? It's the "head in hands/Holy crap!" signal, isn't it? (tee-hee-hee!)

And GT denial claims yet another victim!

GT denial sure got me. When I saw DS6's achievement test scores from his teacher-ID'd GT test, I had a major freak-out moment because I had thought he might hit 140 on some of them, maybe. The fact that he was pushing 160 on some scores--even surpassing 160 on a couple of subtests!--was almost more than I could believe.

"My son? Mine? But...but...I can't understand how I missed that. I mean he's bright, but...that's...that's...Um, okay, so now what?"

Wild ride!

Now that I know what it is, I'll be able to keep a look out for the others!

At least now that we aren't worrying about early entrance, we can take a break to breathe.

And Kriston, I'm sure hoping you and a few other HSers are around when we start looking into that. by the way, when i first found this site, I thought HS was high school, and it was all incredibly amazing that all these really young kids were in high school! doh!

Sorry! I always try to include "home school" once in every thread if I think newbies are on it, because I would think HS was "high school," too. But laziness wins out in the end--HS is just so much shorter to write over and over!

Is there a better abbreviation, d'ya think?

I had to ask what DS and DD were, so I feel your pain!

As for my being around...well, I'm an addict, so I think it's safe to say that I'll be here!

Congratulations on the great scores. It's hard to look at the scores and not to panic. I went through everything from "Wow!" to "OMG what are we going to do?"



There are so many different ways of being HG+. I still don't know what to think about who PG kids are. I don't consider my son PG. I got up to using EG and even that makes me slightly uncomfortable.

I read a few replies about math coming to the game later on and I agree. Reading was what made us believe that DS5 (3 at that time) was gifted. He could do some math at that time, but it was pretty much in the "as expected" category. It may sound bad, but since both Dh and I are good in math, we expected him to be the same. When he turned 4 it became clear that he is more than quite smart in math and he really took off in last half a year. It looks like he learns something new every week. He just started to do long division with one digit divisor in his head and is clearly in the 4th grade math curriculum.

You may find yourself at this position a few years from now. It seems like math takes longer to take off. Sit back and watch. I am being taught this lesson by my DS3 right now. It was only last week when I said that he didn't care too much for math. This week he asks for word problems every evening during dinner time. Yesterday he proudly wrote a few addition and subtraction problems for us. For some reason mealtime time is our prime time to talk about math and science. I joke that we will homeschool during the mealtime only and will have the rest of the day free. LOL.

Ok, now you're scaring me about the math. Long division at 5? Eek! I'm even more nervous because DS4 wants to do this computer game with 2nd grade math stuff, so i ordered an abacus to get started with math. Well at least i'm comfortable with an abacus... Luckily, DH is more math-brained than I am. And I did win the "math award" in 8th grade... (of course my tiny catholic school didn't teach algebra yet, so my award was pretty meaningless!)

Yay! And I hope acs is here too, because they have had success with their HG+ kid in school. It's comforting to see all the different choices yielding success stories.

Oh, I so agree!