Don't kill me- must ask! Do 99% kids have 99% parents?

[Anonymous]

The posters on the other thread with 2+ 99% kids made me wonder, are you 99% parents? And, if so, did that matter? Are you terribly successful? Happy? Rich? Did it make a difference to you? Inquiring minds want to know!

[Anonymous]

I do not think so. Just a few overachievers and wannabes!

[Anonymous]

Yes. Very successful on one side, pretty much a complete failure career-wise on the other (that would be mine).

[Anonymous]

I don't know, but I know 99% parents don't always have 99% kids. They might have 95% and even 82% kids - at least if we are to believe the be all and end all of a WPPSI test for 3 year old.

[Anonymous]

two 99% parents with two 99% kids. Very happy. One successful the other highly educated but not particularly successful.

[Anonymous]

21:45 I feel you. But don't the most successful careers have a "failure" of a spouse supporting them and their careers!

[Anonymous]

Ha, DH may have been a 99.9ile kid, but I am definitely not. More accurately: I probably would've had a high WPPSI score, but I would've probably "flattened out" on later tests. My early elementary teachers were always trying to have me skip a grade, but I was just a bright, hardworking student by junior high, not a genius.

I totally adore my children and love all their special quirks, talents, etc. But they are just regular kids. I think a few folks receive these WPPSI reports and go gonzo. By January/February, the tough realities of the admissions process shine through and most parents realize that a 99.9ile score is just a number and that their DC will need more than that to be admitted to top independent schools in the area.

[Anonymous]

Our 99WPPSI child has one 99 parent (DH) and one mid-90s (me). DH is way successful in everything he does, I think because he has the brains AND fierce drive and laser focus and stamina and competitive nature.

I am not successful by D.C. standards. I just don't want "it" that much. We are not rich, again by D.C. standards. I am pretty happy, DH less so.

[Anonymous]

no -- my husband and I were dense when it came to SATs but really good at drive -- so w/ fire in the belly - we've done better than our dreadful scores would have predicted. Kid on the other hand is gifted: fire in belly plus fire in belly = 99.9999 percent kid...we're happy for her and for ourselves for this lucky stroke

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I totally adore my children and love all their special quirks, talents, etc. But they are just regular kids. I think a few folks receive these WPPSI reports and go gonzo. By January/February, the tough realities of the admissions process shine through and most parents realize that a 99.9ile score is just a number and that their DC will need more than that to be admitted to top independent schools in the area.

Shhh. Don't confuse them with reality.

[Anonymous]

Never took a WPPSI, so no clue how I stack up. But I'm definitely dumber than my 99.9 kid, despite my Princeton BA and advanced degrees.

[Anonymous]

I was going to ask how most parents even know their scores? Did they take the same test as kids too? The reality is that most kids are "average" but DC has a higher concentration of people who were at the head of their classes, from top schools, etc etc. So it isn't a shocker that their own kids will be above average IQ wise too.

[Anonymous]

DH took an IQ test when he was 7, and apparently scored around 165. More importantly he is well adjusted and happy and successful. Who knows if the 165 had anything to do with it. He is seen as being brilliant at his job. I wasn't tested but was always top of my class. That could mean anything from average IQ, hard worker to high IQ. I know I do not have my husband's intellect though. He didn't tell me his score until earlier this year and I wasn't surprised.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was going to ask how most parents even know their scores?

IQ test--administered after my parents requested acceleration.

[Anonymous]

Just FYI, the IQ tests have all been re-normed since most of us were kids, so today's scores are significantly lower and the test ceiling is lower.

I was never tested as a kid. DH tested (his mother was a psychologist who gave him IQ tests for fun) very high.

My older DD is a 99.9 kid and sometimes she takes my breath away with how quickly she grasps and understands and extrapolates complex concepts like infinity, negative numbers, the infinity of fractions in between two integers, etc. (Obviously we are a math heavy family LOL.)