I often wonder how people handle 2 or 3 HG+ extremely verbal kids in the same family...how do you manage to survive? How do you sleep at night? I can't ignore DS, my conscience won't allow me to but at the same time, I'm really at my wit's end. I just wish his brain will slow down sometimes or he'll just keep quiet.
Ah yeah, I am just realising WHY I find it so freaking hard to keep our life together, why I am always utterly exhausted, sleep deprived and frazzled - and LATE to everything when I used to always be so organised and on time. I too wonder if other parents of multiple gifted kids cope better than we do, but I regularly feel like my head is going to explode with all three of them going full pelt all the time. Particularly given the strong visual spatial leanings in the family ("Shoe's? Huh? Where?.... Lunch? Drink bottle?... I don't know what I did with them... Look at this cool thing I made..." x 3 kids and one DH).
Oh YES! Me too. Hence why I am flipping out so much about having a third!
Anyway, my children haven't been tested (one is too young, one borderline) but we haven't needed to for school or anything. So sometimes, yes, I convince myself I am making it all up. But that is all in my head, no-one here has ever implied I shouldn't be here. It is the fact that I can say "Help, my four year old needs structured learning activities, what do I do?" and I don't get the usual comments about how awful I am to try to force structured learning on my child and I should just let him play in the yard, or how I have been brainwashed by all those early learning programmes. People here get it! I feel comfortable here, so I stay.
But I also think there is the self selection factor - that the more 'different' a child is, the more likely parents are to seek help and support and not find that locally and so go for forums such as this. So it wouldn't surprise me if the demographics were a bit skewed that way.
