Wow. Okay I believe in giving your child every advantage...read to them, play with them, if they ask a question answer in a way that they are satisfies, if it leads to another question great....but just wow....As a therapist I just feel this is so entirely unethical. But I also would extreamly worry about these children as they progress in their education. If labeled as "gifted" only because of being "taught the test" then how will they truely perform in an enviroment greared toward highly gifted students.....wouldn't they constantly struggle to keep up, or has it become in these districts where there are so many tutored iq's that the gifted programs have been diminished to teach to this level....thus leaving out children who are gifted with out being taught.
I do workbooks with DD, and I do teach somethings.....but it is all things she has asked....right now we are working on addition, not much treaching involved as she grasped the concept herself one day, came to me and told me it was like counting, bu she has since asked me to teach her more of it....so we work on it when she feels like it....but it is fun to her, and led by her.
These articles just amaze me.
