Thank you so much for all the thoughtful, honest conversation. It's been wonderful to share a bit in each of your experiences.
And now, based one something that happened yesterday, I am going to start bragging more.
Yesterday my youngest came home and started telling me a story about something that happened at school, how one of the boys in his class was making fun of him for being dumb. My son's comment? "And he's one of the smart boys. Not like me."
Not like him? He really thought that. He thought that because of his dysgraphia and dyslexia and the challenges he has due to the learning disability that he wasn't one of the smart ones.
I realize that we have had to focus so much on what he has had to overcome, that we haven't done a lot of "bragging". That coupled with the self-censoring that came from raising two other gifted kids.
So from today forward, my kid is going to hear me brag just a wee bit more about his successes so he stops believing he's not smart or capable of great things.
