Originally Posted by KAR1200
If pressed, I'll admit that he's come from a long LONG line of geeks and then divert the subject to his various relatives with various geeky careers and hobbies -- math teachers, librarians, computer programmers, sys admins, compulsive readers, history nuts, engineers, accountants, etc. and surrounded him with engineers and statisticians among our friends, and it was all downhill from there.... wink

In my experience, when someone mentions relatives working in these professions, it is usually safe to talk to them about your child being advanced because there are usually gifted people in their family and they don't think your child is weird because he is grade levels ahead of kids his age.