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Oooh! 10 spankings! I had no idea I was buddied up to such a rebel!

I was such a perfectionist that I'd have died of shame if I'd been spanked even once, I think. One of my worst memories of school was once having to eat lunch standing at the freezer because I talked when the lights were out. Oh, the trauma!!!

So how did you get the balloons to blow up? That seems like a weird thing for you to have access to if you weren't allowed to blow them up--???

LOL!

I like it too. But she was paddled for it in front of the class. It was very humiliating. Her mom just wanted her to behave and not make waves. She snuck her into school early because she was a single mom who worked all day and she couldn't afford daycare. My mom suffered a lot of abuse growing up from sitters and from her own mom.

Oh, I'm sorry about all that.

Kriston, she is an amazingly resilient person. She is ok despite all she went through.

We're all sort of posting willy-nilly! Lots of overlap today.

That's the best way, I think, though it can lead to some confusing threads if we're not careful.

Still, great fun reading it all!

Of course she is! I mean, duh! She sings in the bathroom! Ergo ipso facto and all that...

You see, I may have weird crushes, but I choose them quite wisely.

Nevermind, Dottie. It's kind of a funny story about the birth certificate. My mom was born on the first of the month. The first birth certificate her mom was given had the wrong birthdate written on it. It was listed as the first of the previous month--probably because everyone had a month to get used to writing that.

Anyway, she got a corrected birth certificate but kept the wrong one. When it came time for my mom to go to school, it happened that her birthday was just after the cutoff. Then her mom remembered the incorrect birth certificate. So the one she gave the school was absolutely genuine. Just had the wrong birthdate on it.

I'm completely new to this site and looking for some suggestions/support, etc. We have a five year old daughter who is definitely advanced and possibly gifted. She fits many of the descriptions listed on this site to a "t." Her Kindergarten teacher suggested we wait a few years and then have her officially tested once she's older.

Our issues are less about her intellectual capacity and more about her emotional issues. She's intense, highly sensitive, anxious, resists change, etc. and it's causing problems with her socially and within the family.

She's obviously very young, but I'd like to know if any of you have followed a plan of action that helped you with some of the issues we have above.

I'd appreciate any insight!

Thanks!

LOL! When I'm on this website, DS7 is frequently standing over my shoulder. He could care less about the actual posts though. He often comments on the number of posts you two have however. He is very impressed!

He thinks I'm a slacker though. I think I just generally feel less qualified to answer posts. I'm on here reading plenty!