I think Dr. Sylvia Rimm is pretty thoughtful about this issue.

http://www.sylviarimm.com/article_rimmslaws.html

Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades And What You Can Do About

is one of her books, and good, except that she doesn't really acknowlege how much harm normal schools do to highly gifted kids until 7/8th through the book. But that is fair, because the vast majority of the readers don't have highly gifted kids, they have bright or OG kids.

Anyway - her take seems to be that it's best to Smile/nod/agree and reframe, as in:

"Yes, we are very proud of the HARD WORK (or ENTHUSIASM or DETERMINATION) our son puts into reading."

The idea is that we should compliment character traits, not inborn gifts.

I think it's pretty normal for boys to frankly enjoy the attention - one year a bunch of boys litteral had a race to see who could finish reading 'A series of unfortunate events' books. Why shouldn't feats of reading have the same status as sports feats?

((shrug))
Grinity


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