We feel your pain and concern! This describes DD8 almost exactly, although her intellectual prowess has devolved into a double-barrel blast of denial and stubbornness. Her poker face is so good I often wonder whether I said what I said, or heard what I heard. For at least a year we've been asking that "How will we handle her in five years?" question.
She is "smart but scattered" to such a degree that we are planning to pursue the neuropsych eval, and because she just never quite seems comfortable in her own skin for very long.
Things we've tried with varying success:
- Moved her from regular into gifted class (HUGE success in terms of reducing anxiety)
- Piano lessons (easy to progress yet infinite room to improve)
- More sleep (DD melts down often and easily without enough sleep...)
- DHA/fish oil pills (seems to stabilize her mood when given consistently)
- Sports (we found DD thrived under a "mean" gymanstics coach from Eastern Europe...the only coach who could convince her to excel..we need to get her back into sports)
- Giving her a break from her younger sibling
Last edited by Pru; 05/01/12 04:15 PM.
