Related to this subject, DS6 came home today and informed me that he is the smartest kid in the whole school. I asked why he thought so and he told me that he had a 180 IQ. He refused to tell me who had put the idea in his head. I asked him if he knew what IQ meant. He said "Intelligence Quotient" and smiled. I asked again. "Do you know what intelligence quotient means?" To which he replied.... "It means i'm wicked smart!" (He heard us talking about that particular phrase and has taken it as his own!) I would love to know if it was a child or an adult that was discussing IQ scores with him. He'll tell me eventually, he's not good at secrets.
So tonight, Humility 101......Wish me luck!
Good luck with that... lol. I like the wicked smart; i think it's a dottieism. Can't wait to hear how the Humility course goes. Our kid tells people he's really smart too, and he's not getting that from us (we've been really trying to focus on effort). It's not like they can't figure that out on their own! That's kind of disturbing that an adult would discuss IQ scores with your son without parental consent, though. I suppose we'll have to make it clear at the school that we don't want DS to know his IQ.
We have shared scores with DS'5's grandparents so that they can understand how different he is, then we have shared some books talking about how these kids need different schooling. (From one grandma, we heard a lot about the importance of socialization, so we were hoping to convince her of the importance of intellectual peers.) As for DS, he knows he learns differently than other kids his age. I think our tester recommends telling kids when they're age equivalent is around 13. I don't know what we'll do.
