He seems like a normal kid to me, he's just very smart too. �Nurture or nature? �He has a family tree full of 'em plus a mother who started educating him on the 3r's. �He loves cartoon network and playing tag. �He easily learned early academics that some kids twice his age struggle with. �
You'll never know if they were �born to be smart or if it was nature vs. nurture. �If a parent educates their child it shows the parent enjoys education, or else they wouldn't have stuck with it; nurture as a proof of nature.�
� I believe that they tend to be self-selected to a certain degree based on educational needs, but also in some cases based on an apparent desire to have a gifted child, and as gifted as possible at that.
And I'm glad for that. �It ruffled�
my feathers to read parents posting elsewhere variations of, "I sometimes wish my kid weren't gifted.". Rude. �Why?! �
Most folks who post here seem to know that their child is gifted from the time the child is a toddler. I see a lot of threads asking if a two or three year old kid is gifted. I can understand that you can recognize a gifted kid when they are PG, but what about other kids?
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From the little while I've been a regular here I've seen a few of the parents of older gifted kids move on. �They've said it is because this board was good for them when they needed it, but their advocacy has been done, their kids are almost grown. �There are some parents of olders still here either because their advocacy is not finished and/or to help those of us coming after. �The bulk of parents posting about giftedness are understandably elementary school or preschool because that's when issues appear, advocacy appears, and testing happens. �I imagine the posters with gifted babies have a history related to giftedness, or a family history; sometimes it's the daycare worker who tells them. �
But posters here do like their giftedness, thank goodness. �
Enough about me, let's talk about you. �So what you didn't know? �You raised your kid like every generation of parents before you. �You just raise your kids, and that's all, just like the rest of us. �
http://www.meritaid.com/http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/^^ here's where the parents of gifted teens go ^^
