Originally Posted by puffin
Originally Posted by aeh
I just have to add that I am so happy to see that there are parents who are this sensitive to how their children will receive their individual IQ scores, and how the sibling dynamics will be affected. IRL, I have, most unfortunately, seen more than one family that overtly pits one child against another, or limits/inflates expectations of one child or another, based purely on IQ numbers.

That you care about this will go a long way toward minimizing the kind of negative dynamic about which you are concerned.

Yeah well that is just sick.

Sadly, I have seen a great many sick families. It's one of the reasons I enjoy spending time on forums like this--to remind myself of the healthy families.


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