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Thank you, Cathy. That was actually somewhat cathartic!
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This is interesting.
I'm on another board and just today had a post "supposedly" by Leftfield Pictures (of Pawn Star, etc. fame) put up and then hastily deleted (?) asking the members if they wanted to answer a casting call for a show about raising gifted kids. The production company name is legitimate, but I don't know if the post was.
My knee-jerk reaction was one of horror. Can you imagine a tv show similar to "Toddlers and Tiaras" about parents who "think" their kids are gifted and/or hothouse?
I hope this is a legitimate research project and the information gleaned will be beneficial to children!
(Not saying it isn't, just cautious.)
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Being in Australia I am fairly confident of the legitimacy but confess I did not contact the university to verify before filling it out.
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It's legit: or at least, there is a PhD student of that name studying parenting gifted children under the supervision of a supervisor of that name at the university where the survey info says they are. I mean, conceivably someone took advantage of that fact to post a bogus survey under their names, but that seems unlikely to say the least :-)
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It's legit: or at least, there is a PhD student of that name studying parenting gifted children under the supervision of a supervisor of that name at the university where the survey info says they are. I mean, conceivably someone took advantage of that fact to post a bogus survey under their names, but that seems unlikely to say the least :-) Thanks for looking into that. I wonder if anyone has contacted her directly to ask?
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Hi, she's a member of another forum I am on (I don't know her personally, but she seems to exist!)
"If children have interest, then education will follow" - Arthur C Clarke
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I started the survey but then it went on for pages about my mental and emotional health and I thought it did not have that much to do with gifted children. I think she was looking to see how stressed we were on raising our gifted children and I wasn't interested in going there.
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I started the survey but then it went on for pages about my mental and emotional health and I thought it did not have that much to do with gifted children. I think she was looking to see how stressed we were on raising our gifted children and I wasn't interested in going there. That's clearly her research topic yes: it's about the experience of *parenting* gifted kids, not about about the kids. I thought the advance information was clear enough about this, and I found it interesting to complete (not least because I currently feel very positive and well-supported in parenting DS and it was pleasant to bring this to the front of my mind!) but yes, people who don't want to talk about how they feel parenting a giftie should steer clear.
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I started the survey but then it went on for pages about my mental and emotional health and I thought it did not have that much to do with gifted children. I think she was looking to see how stressed we were on raising our gifted children and I wasn't interested in going there. That's clearly her research topic yes: it's about the experience of *parenting* gifted kids, not about about the kids. I thought the advance information was clear enough about this, and I found it interesting to complete (not least because I currently feel very positive and well-supported in parenting DS and it was pleasant to bring this to the front of my mind!) but yes, people who don't want to talk about how they feel parenting a giftie should steer clear. I took the survey, and found the questions re: my mental health pretty extreme. Even though I would have responded to the survey differently last year, when I was very stressed and upset re: unsuccessful advocacy, it seemed to me the questions were geared more toward finding out if people suffered from clinical depression. I was happy to discover while filling out the survey that we're in a very good place since switching our son to a school for HG kids, which is finally a good fit.
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