How many here find that raising a gifted child reopens scars from your own childhood?
My DD has never (yet) complained of boredom at school. Even with Maths she just sits there and does the work expected of her despite its glaring lack of challenge.
I constantly worry about whether or not she is becoming habituated to lack of challenge in the classroom. This is really why DW and I skipped her and she has been 'advanced proficient' right out of the gate even in her skipped to grade. And this worries me no end. I know from personal experience just where never being challenged leads...
Way back in the seventies when I was a schoolboy and we had tracking I was still not at all challenged. I can remember staring out of the window for months in certain classes occasionally giving an answer that seemed so obvious I wasn't even sure that it needed to be said when the teacher would ask the class a question and being surprised at the teacher's vigorous head nodding LOL.
It was later after two school changes in 3 years and attendant radical curriculum changes that I floundered. By then I lacked the executive functioning/study skills because I had by then no clue of how to study still at 15! Long forgotten memories are being roused!
I desperately wish for my DD not to end up in that same boat...
Last edited by madeinuk; 10/09/13 11:20 AM.
