you can do that, but we don't have a gifted program because all our students are bright.
Oooooo-- that one makes me SO angry-- and we've heard it plenty, too.
My advice:
a)
manage the perfectionistic tendencies, and read-read-read-read about how that one ties into other sequelae. You're taking the first steps, but the bottom line is that once they get bitten by that bug, they have to MANAGE the condition thereafter. You can't unring that bell, sadly.
b) read here, and ask questions-- you've definitely come to the right place.
c) don't look TOO far ahead. Well, you kind of have to-- I get that-- but you won't know exactly where your child's trajectory and interests will take her in the intervening time (and you're working without a roadmap with a PG child) so you can't spend TOO much mental energy on it either way.
d) Davidson-- yes, by ALL means, apply. They can supply you with a lot of advice and assistance during the next few years. They also have summer programs that you should look at in order to get your DD some face-time with like peers.
Welcome! I have an EG/probably PG 14yo DD who is (reluctantly, it's true) slogging through her final year of high school right now. We've gotten her to tolerate a fairly poor fit by using a virtual school. It's had some ups and downs, but it gives her a normative experience as the basis for relating to academic peers in a collegiate environment, so for that reason, we've stuck with it.
It has allowed us to delay her college entry until she will be 15yo-- which means that her executive function and appearance will allow her to operate somewhat normatively in that environment-- as she could not have done at age 10-11 when she might have managed the content
academically. That executive development has needed some extensive hothousing from us, by the way. We've got her about 18mo ahead of where I think she would otherwise be there, but it's been very hard work for all of us.
