Crud. I hit submit.
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Egocentrism: The tendency for preoperational children to have difficulty in viewing the world from someone else’s perspective or point of view. Psychologists are NOT using egocentrism to mean selfishness or conceit as social psychologists use the word.
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That goes up to around age 7. Even though gifted kids have bursts of insight and make connections it's still just better if you don't EXPECT them to "see what you're saying", even though they do more often than not.
EtA: not that you quit talking to them about it. "if they only understand a tenth of what you're telling them then you only have to tell them ten times for them to get it. Or a hundred. Or a thousand. Or whatever." -dad
There's a book that says how they get the whales at sea world to jump is they set the bar so low. At first they put the rope literrally on the ground and give the whale a treat every time it swims over it, then they gradually lift the rope.
Last edited by La Texican; 06/11/12 10:20 PM.
