Who on here believes his/her child is truly gifted?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. One has a WISC IV of 148, and the other 144. If you would prefer the exact terminology, we could call them "very superior" instead.

IQ = 140 or above is "genius or near genius". Congratulations!

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Anonymous wrote:My son is gifted in math and science

Why would you assume that he missed a page?

He said so for NNAT. He said he noticed the back of the page when the time was up. For CogAT he did not say anything except that the questions were fun and easy. The teacher said he got too ahead for CogAT and she reminded him to slow down to listen to instructions.

[Anonymous]

Anyone else surprised that out of the seven or so substantive responses, 6 families have at least one gifted child. 100% of the world's gifted population must live in N. VA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. One has a WISC IV of 148, and the other 144. If you would prefer the exact terminology, we could call them "very superior" instead.

IQ = 140 or above is "genius or near genius". Congratulations!

Yes 148 and 144 are both very high! Make sure they form good working habits, otherwise they could be lazy and not fulfill the potentials. My DD had 140 overall IQ and 145 verbal IQ. She was always looking for patterns and short cuts but we did not notice until high school! We thought she got everything but once she got to pre-cal, her weak foundation started to show. She had a very difficult sophomore year with low grades. Now we wish we knew how to handle gifted kids earlier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else surprised that out of the seven or so substantive responses, 6 families have at least one gifted child. 100% of the world's gifted population must live in N. VA.

I heard from my daughter there is a gifted association or something in the nation. The highest IQ in VA is in the 170sh. She said a friend who is super gifted has bi-polar or some sort of disorder.
It is good we all have confidence in our kids

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. One has a WISC IV of 148, and the other 144. If you would prefer the exact terminology, we could call them "very superior" instead.

IQ = 140 or above is "genius or near genius". Congratulations!

Yes 148 and 144 are both very high! Make sure they form good working habits, otherwise they could be lazy and not fulfill the potentials. My DD had 140 overall IQ and 145 verbal IQ. She was always looking for patterns and short cuts but we did not notice until high school! We thought she got everything but once she got to pre-cal, her weak foundation started to show. She had a very difficult sophomore year with low grades. Now we wish we knew how to handle gifted kids earlier.

Pp here. We're working on it. One has definite underachiever tendencies and the other is really high strung and perfectionistic.

[Anonymous]

My kid isn't gifted. She's pretty smart and picks up new concepts quickly, but bottom line is she's just a normal, bright kid. She's never going to need to skip a grade or take college classes in 7th grade. Her wppsi scores were extremely high as I'd expected them to be, but I think that truly gifted children are really rare. They're the kids who go to MIT at 14, not kids who are the top 1 or 2 in a class of 28.

[Anonymous]

The vast majority of the parents on here have advanced, not gifted, kids. They believe that applies, however, to everyone else's kid...and that their kids are the minority of truly gifted. Sigh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid isn't gifted. She's pretty smart and picks up new concepts quickly, but bottom line is she's just a normal, bright kid. She's never going to need to skip a grade or take college classes in 7th grade. Her wppsi scores were extremely high as I'd expected them to be, but I think that truly gifted children are really rare. They're the kids who go to MIT at 14, not kids who are the top 1 or 2 in a class of 28.

True, dat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid isn't gifted. She's pretty smart and picks up new concepts quickly, but bottom line is she's just a normal, bright kid. She's never going to need to skip a grade or take college classes in 7th grade. Her wppsi scores were extremely high as I'd expected them to be, but I think that truly gifted children are really rare. They're the kids who go to MIT at 14, not kids who are the top 1 or 2 in a class of 28.

+100

[Anonymous]

One of mine is truly gifted. The other two are very bright, but not gifted.

[Anonymous]

OP, how do you define "gifted"?

[Anonymous]

Johns Hopkins says DS is. That's why he went to GT classes. Dunno what his "Talent" is.

[Anonymous]

Impossible that all these kids are truly gifted....defined as that rare child who stands out from almost everyone else (ready for college as a youngster, for example). Most of us who call our kids "gifted" are the parents of children who are bright (and would be the top 2 to 3 out of most classes).

[Anonymous]

If everyone gets to be extraordinary... then no one really is.