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Should we start a "gifted child" forum? Good grief.
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Anonymous
| HAH! |
Anonymous
| Frankly I'm against any new forums, just cause I am, but a Gifted Child Forum would certainly be more relevant to general parenting issues than that stupid beauty forum-what the heck does all that mess have to do with parenting? |
Anonymous
| The word gifted is ridiculous. What happened to smart or intelligent? not good enough? |
Anonymous
Gifted makes me think of the little boy in the movie where he sees dead people.... |
Anonymous
Ha! like "touched" or, in Appalachia, "teched." Funny! |
Anonymous
| I am from Appalachia and gifted and beautiful and over-sexed and I am DEEPLY offended by this entire thread. Especially how I am teched. |
Anonymous
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It seems to me that Gifted discussions either (1) go in the General Topic, where they appear to annoy many people, (2) get their own topic, which costs zero dollars and allows them to discuss among themselves, or (3) to be banned from DCUM. Given all the c&#p that I have read here in the last year, I think it's absurd to declare this the first banned topic (except for that Dentist thing).
I vote for #2. Hopefully the trolls will leave them alone in their own forum. |
Anonymous
| Well, how 'bout it Jsteele? Can we huh? Can we huh? PLease PLease please? I promise I'll wash it and feed it and walk it and you'll NEVER have to do anything to take care of it.... |
Anonymous
Ok, here we go-another extraneous forum. Here's the deal Jeff-if you let this one in, than you have to let in UFO's In Rock Creek Park-fair is fair! I'm just sayin' |
Anonymous
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I have no doubt there are many gifted kids out there, but I also know some parents blame their children's patterns of misbehavior, etc. on being "bored by the curriculum" or "not being challenged."
So, on an anonymous forum, it's just hard to tell who is really struggling with the challenges of having a gifted kid, hence the eye rolls behind some of these postings. |
Anonymous
| Oh just go ahead and give the gals their forum! Geeze, we normal parents with normal kids won't have to look at yer dull and dingy posts about yer gifted kiddies. It makes us feel badly that our kiddos weren't reading at 2 and doing algebra before 1st grade. Give us a break, pleeze. Post yer stuff on another forum where it won't offend us normals. Mr. Steele, Pleeze give'em their forum, pleeze!! |
Anonymous
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I would argue they already HAVE their own forums.
Special needs kids. Why does it only have to be viewed in the negative of kids who need extra help? Gifted kids need extra help too- just in a different way. No need for a new forum...utilize the appropriate one already there instead of thinking your kids are "above" it. |
Anonymous
Special needs parents often treat the subject with the same disdain that the self-described "normals" have done here. It is unfortunate, but it happens. |
Anonymous
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The primary push behind the longevity of the threads about giftedness comes from people who feel compelled to post with hostile, mocking and snarky responses.
If you see the word "gifted" in the title of a thread and you do not have a sincere interest in the topic, then simply move along. |
Anonymous
No one thinks their child is "above" it. That's your own crap that you are projecting. For the record, I have gone on the Special Needs Board before to ask if it was appropriate to use in that context and was told no. So I respect that. And this, fwiw, is only my second response on this entire thread. |