We just got DD8's DYS acceptance yesterday and my DH and I are over the moon! I want to tell her and celebrate this but I KNOW DS11 will be upset and internalize again that his sister is "smarter" than he is.
He is a HG+ 2e kid and he KNOWS how bright and talented we think he is but he also knows that school is a continual struggle for him-whereas his sister breezes through. This has been a repeated topic of discussion when DS melts down about the difficulty of schoolwork or peer relations from time to time. "Why is everything so easy for (sister)?"
He has the very high PRI but she has the extra high VCI and working memory so she is just "wired for school" as her principal says. I keep telling him his time will come in school later on, just not now. How to enjoy the news with DD without making DS feel like the second string again?
