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    Oh, HK, how heartbreaking. frown

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    I agree on the heartbreak.

    I also have my own heartbreaking snippet to add based on something that I saw my DD 9.5 doing this past week.

    You know that you are parenting a gifted child when...

    You find her agonizing over her homework not because it is hard but because she wants to find examples that classmates will be able to relate to without using examples from books and subjects she knows the majority of her school mates are not familiar with. When you ask why she going to all that trouble she wails that she is sick of being a misfit.

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    madeinuk, there are no words...

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    DS2.10 wanted to learn how x-rays work. After explaining it to him, we were playing radiologist, and he made up a song: "Cathode, anode...photon, photon, photon!"


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    When you finally find a sport that your DD10 can and wants to play and she still finds herself hanging out with adults because the sport is Golf. Although, the adults are absolutely over the moon about having a "respectful, thoughtful, and brilliant" child they can help teach the sport too. Oh well at least she's active and having fun!


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    You get up without protest from your little rest to retrieve the Latin dictionary from the car so she does not have to lose track of her research ideas.

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    You find yourself reprising the role of Danny DeVito in Matilda. DD9 was excited with her haul from the library book sale, and proposed a "reading party", but we had a movie we'd started last night and didn't want to pay another day's rent on it. With tongue firmly in cheek, "No reading! You'll watch TV with your family and you'll like it!" was something I actually said.

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    That is so funny. Make her reading party fun after you return the movie.

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    Oh my. Yes, we've actually had entire discussions as parents trying to wrack our brains finding "appropriate consequences" for malfeasance...

    You do realize that we are punishing our daughter for READING, right?

    crazy

    Or as my DH is fond of barking at DD, tongue firmly in cheek;

    Young lady, you stop that scholarly activity right.this.minute!!



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    When my son was 12 we went on a east coast trip (Philly, NYC, Boston) that was part college tours for my daughter. My son's solution to the fact that traveling and touring colleges was boring was to read the entire Harry Potter books over the course of the 3 weeks. I bought him a light backpack and purchased paperback editions of the books as we went. He would pull his current book out and plop on the ground and read in the craziest places. I have an adorable set of pictures of himreading just about everywhere on this trip. But several times I found myself telling him to stop reading because it just wasn't the appropriate time or place.

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