Sometimes I think I might sound like a pushy parent because I'm always looking for more things to give them. �But I don't feel like a pushy parent, I feel like a creative parent. �Sometimes some posts play on that minor insecurity of mine �but i shake it off quickly. �My kid's are healthy, happy, and engaged in life and learning. �That's my draw to this forum. �People here don't really bash other people's parenting efforts. �There's a tolerant and supportive community for families with wildly different parenting and educational styles. �**my own interpretation** of why it's a gifted forum, the tie that binds us, is that we and our children are able and willing learners. �Anyone who posts on a gifted forum that says someone is not living up to their potential means that they are for some reason less enthusiastic about learning than they should be. �This is not a "badger someone to jump through this hoop" issue, it's an issue of trying to find out why a child who should enjoy learning is not. �Which I keep seeing answered with troubleshooting �for LDs, or more frequently hidden vision problems, or tips to learn to stay on task, to relieve the suffering of all sentient beings, not to berate a child for earning a "b". �That sounds like the actions of a parent who listened to advice from friends, neighbors, and clergy rather than researching giftedness and talking with other gifted parents openly. �This is finally available to this generation. �
I don't have numbers for my kid's. I'm 100% sure they're big numbers. �They'll get whatever generic testing the school gives them once they start. �I'll probably post the results here. �I consider myself belonging here and I consider this forum a community. �But most of the numbers I see posted here are often by people with only a few posts. �I would assume it's because they were given a clinical set of numbers and an evalutory statement about what it means. �But since it's considered rude to talk about such things in polite society they ask mr. Google to find them some everyday people they can discuss the results with anonymously so they can see what the results mean in the real world, which yes, means comparing. �That's what an iq test does-it compares. �But from what I've seen here and from IRL encounters with bright folks it's less of a comparison of "how better than you am I?" but it seems to be more a judgement of the smarter the stranger. �I would share an IQ number with the same standards I would tell someone my birthday. �Some people would never mention it comparing it with mentioning your weight or pant size. �It's all a matter of personal choice. �I wouldn't call it classy either way.
And, plus, to get to the point, nerdy kids like things that the neighborhood kid's might not- excessive books, puzzles, non fictions, geometry blocks, science kits. �It's nice to discuss parent reviews on things each others kid's might really like. �I could really go on here. �There are so many things to love about the existence of this forum and the familys who come here.
Oh yeah, you didn't mention your age and you didn't mention what brought you here initially but there is a gifted forum for highschoolers and college kid's. �I think it's called gifted haven. I browsed it a while ago and it looked active. �They mentioned cognito which is another forum for the young crowd, but I think it's more deeper student-types at that one. Didn't look close. �My kid's aren't that old and I'm happy here.
I may edit this post later. �It's late. �I'm tired.
