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Does anyone here have an average child?
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Anonymous
Next you'll be telling me that my oblique, pitying comments are somehow inappropriate. |
Anonymous
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I have one that was reading (with comprehension) by 4 and now at 5.5 she is doing multiplication and division. We'll see how K goes this coming year, but we've been told by others that she is above average (ped, friends with kids her age).
Our younger one is really average from what we can tell now. He is really, really behind her at the same age on verbal, fine motor skills, etc. Ped thinks he's right on track and average. |
Anonymous
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Mine's only 2.5. We think she's bright but who the hell knows. I'd be ok if she was average - I was GT all my life and would probably have preferred to be average, or at least "smart but not GT smart." I don't know if her dad would be ok with that, though - he's one of those uber-smart people who doesn't really relate well to non-smart people. we'll see what happens!
I have some really smart friends and some smart-average (i.e. high side of average) friends who married smart guys. (and one really smart girlfriend who married a smart-average friend.) i'm curious to see how their kids turn out! |
Anonymous
| Eh, being too smart is overrated. It is a gift and a curse at the same time. Yay for average! Life in balance. |
Anonymous
| Amusing that this post is about average kids but still has a bunch of responses from people boasted how smart their kids are. I am an MCPS person and chuckle at all the acronyms and test scores on the VA board. Maybe I should be more upset that MCPS does not have all the opportunities for GT education but I am not sure it is worth all that FCPS people go through.. |
Anonymous
I very much agree with this. I think being smart enough and being an outgoing person who people like will get you much farther in life than just being smart. |
Anonymous
Agreed! |
Anonymous
"high ability " Tee hee. |
Anonymous
Hey there! My DC is in the AAP program, and he came home in the middle of the year and told me that his teacher had a talk with them about teasing the non-AAP kids about not being in the program. Apparently it was happening on the playground. Well, obviously I didn't tell my child, but all I could think of at the time was how funny it was that the smart nerdy kids were making fun of the other kids when in a few years, those same kids will be getting shoved in lockers and mocked for being brainy kids. At least if you believe Hollywood movies and books. 
Que the touchy AAP parents who are considering responding to me about how their smart AAP kids are also sports experts, will likely be the captain of the football team or head cheerleader and super popular! Obviously I am exaggerating, but I am sure that you know what I mean. It seems to me that the only kids who would tease the non-AAP kids are the ones who have parents who tell them how special they are because THEY were chosen as the smartest snowflake in the sky. BTW....DC's AAP teacher told the class that all the third graders are smart, the AAP kids just learn differently. I am sorry that it sounds like your child's school isn't as proactive about that stuff. |
Anonymous
My experience has been that the GT label doesn't matter one lick once you hit the college age. I knew many people who might not have been in GT classes and did great in AP classes, went on to great schools and have excellent jobs. I know other kids who were the GT 'smart' kids who are doing just as well and in some cases worse. I think we put too much into labels in when the kids are young. Also, it seemed like a good deal of the uber smart kids that I went to school with (and took AP classes with, even though I was NOT in a GT program before HS) didn't have the sense that God gave a lemon when it came to social situations and general dealing with society. Book smarts can only get you too far before common sense has to kick in. |
Anonymous
| DS is average in terms of intelligence, but way above average in terms of being an overall awesome kid. |
Anonymous
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Just want to respond to 8:44, since I didn't want to give the impression that by saying "high ability" that I was bragging about my DD. To the contrary, it's alarming to me that DD had very high ability test scores (the tests given at school for placement into the AAP program) but her performance doesn't correlate with her ability. I am hoping that she will blossom in the AAP environment, but am realistic that the opposite might happen.
Then there's the issue of DD, who at age 5 can tell you the day of the week on which any date in 2011 falls. How did he learn that, and more practically, what use is that "advanced" skill? I agree with 12:57 - common sense and EQ are probably the most important attributes of all. (DD will be okay; for DS these are not innate.) |
Anonymous
| mine is average but got into GT. |
Anonymous
| Just finished Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers. Everyone who thinks IQ correlates with success should read this book. It does NOT, yet we place so much emphasis on IQ in Fairfax County. Mine are GT, but I'm trying hard to instill in them that perseverance and hard work are the keys to success. Kindness and creativity count more than smarts. |
Anonymous
| Totally agree 16:23 - nice post |