Hi,
I've been lurking a little bit lately and just wanted to say for a start, just what a relief it is to find this site.
I have 6.5yo daughter who is skipped and in 2nd grade. She's tested twice at >99.9%. She loves school and is cruising in the top group in her class which includes a couple of other gifted kids. She's working between 2 and 4 years ahead in class depending on the topic (plus the skip) and just having a ball but still finding the work mostly straight forward. She's extremely happy socially. She is also simply not remotely interested in 'academics'. I keep hearing or reading about kids who are fascinated with maths or history or science. Not my dd. Other than a love of high fantasy fiction she's just not driven the way I see other kids described. She's tried lots of different activities and is interested for a bit and then moves on. I have to admit I'm a bit the same, so I kind of get it, but is has meant I've wandered from one thing to the next.
Now, I realise this is the gifted equivalent of a first world problem - but I guess I sometimes wonder what to do with her. I have a very happy kid in a school with a gifted cohort. She's top of her group in lost of areas and being extended. But she's not really developing any study skills and she's reluctant to put herself out there if there is a risk she wont succeed (I guess that is the thing that concerns me most).
Does anyone else have a kid like this? What are people's thoughts? Is it worth pushing more or, at 6, do I just let things ride for a bit more?
