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By the way, this wouldn't hold up in court or anything, but I've heard the more intelligent the person, the more androgynous.

And we've officially hijacked this thread!

I like to see EG and PG accelerated, but I think it's a band-aid that doesn't last long. I believe that IQ number weighs heavily on processing speed and memory. The more you give them, the higher you set the bar, the faster they catch up.

Our school has excellent gifted programming options. However, they have had to create a mini-magnet like program for DD8 and 3 others in her second grade class.

I highly appreciate their efforts, it's outstanding and she enjoys school much more now. Is it fully satisfying her educational needs now? No. Would skipping one grade solve the problem for her? H@#$ no. But it's not realistic for her to have one on one tutor-like teaching for her. Maybe in the future. For now things are okay. I am constantly on the look out for the program that "fits". Not sure it's out there except for homeschooling.

Incog

K-Cab: You're in. I'll private message you as to where to send the dues to me, uh, I mean, the club.

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ROFL!

Incog (or "neato) I've also heard that too. I read a book once about gifted kids that said girls who like to play with "boy" toys, like Legos, building things, etc. are usually more intelligent than girls who only play with "girlie" toys. My sister had a higher IQ than I did and her FAVORITE toy growing up was Legos. In fact she still has her entire collection that she will not let her kids even touch - LOL!!!

Anyway, don't know if that is true or not (and this is not to say "girlie" girls can't be highly gifted too) but I did think your comment was interesting.

k-cab I think you need to be somewhat wary of where those dues are going......

EandC

Agreed. It's why Ruf says any level 4 or above kid could probably graduate from college by 12 or whatever. It's also what gives ME nightmares and makes me shudder to think about it...

I just feel SOOOOO unprepared for this wild ride! I was supposed to have a nice, simple, MG kid--maybe the low end of HG--who would fit in and get straight As and be involved in lots of extracurriculars and be NORMAL! (You know, like me!!! <grin>) But I didn't sign up for this!

Denial, denial, denial...

EandC,

Both you and your sister can be in the club. Just make sure you send in the dues.



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Kriston, you are cracking me up!

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Ok incog - we'll send them right in. Make the check out to you right????

Yes, that's I-N-C-O-G-N-E-A-T-O.

I'll make sure the money gets to the right place.

Oh man. I actually never thought of the sports thing that way. I just looked at it more as boy sports age=strength and girls agility. Great (insert sarcasm). Well, a bridge to jump off later. #1 will probably always head for more individual sports - just with her personality but #2 is more like me and I played team sports thru college...

Sorry about the getting the score issue wrong... that's what you get for letting baby posters on or posters with babies :-) But question, I shouldn't have to worry about pg issues if we aren't ruf 5?