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Thanks OHG, but I think eventually is pretty close with DD. 3 going on 18.

Ren

Admittedly, I did not read the entire thread but this first post troubles me a lot.
Why are you making an assumption that since parents are physicists/astrophysicist/phd - their children are somehow expected to be "gifted" ?????

LOL
LOL indeed.

My DS's IQ must be WAY up there because of almost 10 years of playing a string instrument. Up by at least 70 points and maybe even a 100 ? Will playing two string instruments double that????

...and television causes autism. It's on the internet.

Guess what's on the top at Foxnews.com? Yep, an article about how breastfeeding raises IQ's!
Long-term breastfeeding

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Look, it's not a forumula(no pun intended) on how to raise the perfect & super intelligent baby, but many factors go into giving a baby the best chance you can.

My point is that people who CHOOSE to work--not just those who HAVE to work for economic reasons--should not be guilt-ed. Every person, every family is different. It's no one's place to judge the choices made by others (provided those choices are legal!).

Feminism to me is about trying to ensure that there are MORE choices for women and families, not fewer. Anything that seems to try to limit or judge as "bad" or "wrong" the choices of others is going to set off my anti-feminism detector, and I'm going to speak up.

And I am a SAHM, so it's not like I'm taking this personally. I just think that daycare is not by definition evil and that parents don't need to feel more guilt for doing what they think is best overall for their families. It's not unforgiveable selfishness to want to have a career and a family.

I'd love to see improvements in child care in this country so that both kids and parents are better off, but now I'm really going off-topic...

About the doctorates and IQ correlation? because of Ruf. She wrote that there was a correlation.

Also, physics is applied math. You can't get a PhD in Physics without being pretty bright.

Also, there is another woman, teaches at IVY league engineering, husband also a PhD in Physics doing serious classified work. Find out her father is a serious physist. Like global recognition, but I do not see gifted in her 2 daughters. She didn't even bother to have them tested.

I know these are just anecdotal stupid posts. But I really don't feel like working today. But now I have another distraction. Must pick up DD from preschool. Everyone have a nice day. It is 80 degrees and sunny. Yeah!!

Ren

Why would she? That is my whole point....

I don't look at friends' kids or other kids and question levels of giftedness and how they got there.

And my kid-- bottled and daycared and DYS. So I don't take stock in any of those studies about IQ either.

FWIW various strategies to increase intelligence was never something I thought about. Still don't.

Did you avoid drinking alcohol while pregnant, assuming you drink some at other times?