There could be a little bit of both. Adults are more apt to go along with what the kid wants to do in terms of you be the coal manager, I'll be the engineer, etc. Even another gifted kid will balk at be told what to do, when. Which is probably one of the reasons little gifties like adults or older kids. But I think GeoMamma's point is the more significant, we dealt with this a lot in my DS 5's pre-k, the kids just didn't know what he was talking about, he used different vocabulary about different subjects and often the kids would just stare blankly. You could almost see them accessing their memory files, going this does not compute!! DS was more saddened by this than frustrated. He compensated by layering his imaginary world on top of the simpler games is
companions were playing.
I'm not saying there isn't a need to teach the social arts, we talk a lot with DS about
how playing is a give and take and he can't order people around but from his perspective, no one's games are as good as his. With his older cousins we saw much less of this behavior, as their play is much more complex also he is in with first graders for camp and there seems to be less of the "do it my way"
DeHe
Last edited by DeHe; 07/05/11 06:13 PM.
