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    Re: Does a high IQ kid always has a talent?
    CAMom #136718 08/30/12 05:30 AM
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    Originally Posted by CAMom
    I was reminded here, when doing our app several years ago, that memorizing 100s of Pokemon cards, levels and abilities is "prodigious" when you're only 6. Most people equate this talent question to something academic, musical or artistic. For us, it was (and still is) strategy, games and memorization.

    Thanks! This is such a reassure, I can definitely related to my DS8 in this, he is also very into Pokémon cards, Beyblades, and games, having a huge collection, and memorized details on every single one of them. He also would spent hours to reassembly beyblade parts, until found a best combination for max power and speed etc.
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    Originally Posted by CCN
    With my DD9 it's obsessing. LOL

    (sigh)

    laugh Yup.

    We've had to cut :cough-cough: someone... off cold-turkey from Webkins, then Pokemon, then something else...

    because each new thing seems to become The Obsession that Ate Real Life without a Backward Glance. (sigh)

    We found that interactive activities AWAY from the computer tend to produce better results since there are natural time-limits on such things. (That's my helpful tip re: this type of child.)


    Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.
    Re: Does a high IQ kid always has a talent?
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    Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
    The Obsession that Ate Real Life without a Backward Glance. (sigh)

    ROFL!! My cat just looked at me funny when I laughed out loud at that smile

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