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

[Anonymous]

Highly gifted? yes

Exceptionally gifted? no

Profoundly gifted? no


DC1: WISC FSIQ 142

DC2: WISC FSIQ 144


http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/highly_profoundly.htm

[Anonymous]

DS is in AAP. Gifted? No. He scores very high (tops out) on non-verbal reasoning, which pulls up his FSIQ. It doesn't really help his academic performance. He's middle of the class in AAP. He is scary good at logic puzzles and has some quirky interests, though.

[Anonymous]

I'm actually impressed with the rather reasonable responses thus far. People who have responded are for the most part backing up with concrete measures, such as scores, and many are also recognizing the difference between bright, gifted, and highly gifted.

My kid skipped two grades and takes the advanced classes in the new higher grade. I don't have the test scores handy, but they were very, very high.
DH and I both tested gifted, but kid is definitely in another league from us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I do, because DH and I were both in gifted programs and have genius-level IQs. Intelligence is highly heritable, and DD appears to have inherited it.

+1

In our case, DC is the fourth generation in a family that is gifted in math (engineers, inventors, professors) and has a facility with numbers that already stands out in a group of very smart and talented 4 year old peers. (I say fourth generation because those are the people whose professions built on their math talents, prior to that they didn't have options to pursue higher education or own businesses.)

[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 answered and don't live in NoVa. So the extremely scientific study based on a question posted anonymous internet website is now totally screwed!

[Anonymous]

I believe one of our children is, but I don't know about the other. They both tested in the 99% for WPPSI. The DC I assume is gifted is incredibly creative, advanced in math and spatial/building skills, and very strong in abstract reasoning at a young age. Both my husband and I tested over 160 in the old-school IQ tests, and performed very well academically (teaching grad school classes while in college, DH first in his class in a top ivy law school two years in a row, etc.). Our DC seems significantly more advanced than either of us were at his age.

[Anonymous]

"Johns Hopkins says he is gifted..."

I love how Duke, Johns Hopkins, and Stanford trade on their brand names to bilk gullible parents out of millions of dollars in fees for these amazing classes that are only suitable for the truly "gifted," whose needs are so different than "typical" kids. I hope that ego stroke was worth the $7,000 you spent last summer.

Duke accepted me in the TIP back in the late 80's. I was a pretty smart kid. But would I say I was "gifted" in some exceptional way? Nope.

So you're in the top 1% in the nation on a standardized test. Big deal. All that means is that you're one of the 43,000 smartest American kids to be born in the same year you were. Take away the age cohort. So you're in the top 1% of Americans in intelligence. Wow ... you're one of the 3 million smartest people in the country. You want a cookie or something? Get over yourself.

[Anonymous]

Your child does not need to be a genius to pace into the "gifted" program. Any IQ over 122 or so can easily do the work if they want to. Some kids just do not like academics.

[Anonymous]

Why all the talk about "giftedness"? Isn't the program called "Adavanced Acedemics" now? There's a reason for that. It's just accelerated classes for kids who are bright and pick up things quickly.

[Anonymous]

That was a change that was overdue the day they came up with the name! Gifted and Base?

[Anonymous]

My first grader: can multiply and divide (mental, not long division), reads independently on the 4th grade level, has half of the periodic table and many of the periodic trends memorized, can define and extropolate magnetic field lines (just one example of applied scientific understanding), and can do many of these things in two languages, but...
he can barely write a complete sentence and can't tie his shoes due to dyspraxia. Because of his inability to write he tested at an IQ of 86 at age 5. I don't believe he is gifted, but he is quite bright and certainly not borderline mentally retarded.

[Anonymous]

Nahhh, mine is just good looking

[Anonymous]

Gifted isn't all that. In fact, I read an article once saying the ideal IQ for success and happiness in life is right around 130.

My friend's DS is so smart he reached the end of some of the IQ test sections without missing any questions. But he has been in self-contained special ed classes since preschool because he is too emotionally volatile for the regular classrooms. He doesn't have any friends. I'm sure she would gladly trade away some of his IQ points for some EQ.

Be grateful for your well-adjusted, socially-normal bright children.

[Anonymous]

My son is not gifted but is quite bright. Advanced for his age group? We suspect based on school reports but have little concrete idea as we work very hard to not create an environment for him where we compare ourselves to others. What my son is, though, is highly driven and motivated. He is a natural leader with a very intuitive sense. He certainly does not get his leadership skills from me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Johns Hopkins says he is gifted..."

I love how Duke, Johns Hopkins, and Stanford trade on their brand names to bilk gullible parents out of millions of dollars in fees for these amazing classes that are only suitable for the truly "gifted," whose needs are so different than "typical" kids. I hope that ego stroke was worth the $7,000 you spent last summer.

Duke accepted me in the TIP back in the late 80's. I was a pretty smart kid. But would I say I was "gifted" in some exceptional way? Nope.

So you're in the top 1% in the nation on a standardized test. Big deal. All that means is that you're one of the 43,000 smartest American kids to be born in the same year you were. Take away the age cohort. So you're in the top 1% of Americans in intelligence. Wow ... you're one of the 3 million smartest people in the country. You want a cookie or something? Get over yourself.

Are you one of those people who also doesn't believe the top 1% are "really" rich?