In our house, it is the princess test.
She knows it is about which school she gets to go to for kindergarten and knows that if she does well she can go to the school for really smart kids and why this is important.
Because we do have issues about trying. She likes it when it comes easy and we have discussions about things that come easy and things you have to work for.
But we started calling it the princess test, because princesses have tests now and need to practice and persevere. (new princess stories anyway) and she is into princesses.
And as she is the typical visual spatial, she doesn't like dealing with a task, until, as Silverman puts it, "the light bulb goes off" and then it is like "of course I know how to do this", been doing it a lifetime kind of attitude.
So I had a conversation about the tortoise and the hare. Although she is really smart, she must learn to sit and breathe and think, because her smarts won't do her any good if she doesn't learn to use them and kids who might not be as fast thinkers as she, could do better than she, because she abuses her gift. That conversation seemed to get to her. Her competitive nature, but she got that even if it was easier for her, other kids could work harder and do better.
Ren
