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Why do DCUMs always need to tell you that her child has a high IQ?
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Anonymous
| There you go. |
Anonymous
why don't you learn some manners? You sound like a very mean, angry person. |
Anonymous
| My child will NEVER be good at sports. He will NEVER be the popular kid. He will ALWAYS be dealing with issues that are manageable but also stressful to his parents and eventually to him. He was also an early reader (age 2) ... which means he has a strength in math (early decoding = early pattern recognition) rather than a strength in actual reading. Early readers who start in pre-k are the ones who are actually good readers in the normal sense. Of course none of you much cares nor should you ... but sometimes moms need something to feel good about when it comes to their kids. It is not an evil thing .... just human nature. |
Anonymous
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"My child will NEVER be good at sports. He will NEVER be the popular kid. He will ALWAYS be dealing with issues that are manageable but also stressful to his parents and eventually to him. He was also an early reader (age 2) ... which means he has a strength in math (early decoding = early pattern recognition) rather than a strength in actual reading. "
Early reader = a strength in math is bullshit. But this post answers the OP's question. Some parents must brag about their kids to "fit in". |
Anonymous
I hope you feel better now after shooting off your wad. By the way, my DC is in middle school and his strength is also in math. He didn't start reading until the end of first grade. |
Anonymous
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The only thing worse than the IQ posts are the ones about HHI. I wonder if some of these are farces, since it's laughable when people complain about how high their mortgage is when their HHI is $700K.
Smart kids and lots of money. Isn't that what we all want? What's the use of having such lovely things in our lives if we can't brag about them? I don't know my kids IQs, and I never will. I will not put numbers on my kids. It's something narrow-minded, unimaginative people use to put people into categories. |
Anonymous
| Ah, yes, the last acceptable prejudice: unreasoned animus directed at those who have more than you do. |
Anonymous
And your expertise in this topic is...what exactly? Your ignorance is showing. |
Anonymous
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"And your expertise in this topic is...what exactly?"
What is yours? |
Anonymous
She didn't claim any. Whereas you - by virtue of your assertion - did. |
Anonymous
Just hazarding a guess, but an assertion of a cute smile (or being a fast runner, great gymnast, actress, etc.) is pretty subjective, isn't it? I think my child has a cute smile, and if you saw her you'd almost certainly agree, but I can't really substantiate that on a message board (unless, I suppose, she had won the "Miss Cute Smile DC" contest or something), now can I. To take it further, my child is not a fast runner or a great gymnast, but even if she were I wouldn't able to establish that objectively without timing her in the 100 meters or counting her gymnastic medals. So I suspect some posters are just looking for a way to present an objective view of their children. "DC is smart." Or, "DC was an early reader." Those are subjective claims. OTOH, "DC has an IQ of 140" or "DC learned to read at age 3." Well, those are objective and lend at least a certain amount of weight to the posters point (assuming it was somehow relevant to intelligence or literacy). My 2 cents only, of course. |
Anonymous
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I was a really early reader. My parents didn't see it as a sign of superiority and they didn't brag about it. Maybe because I was a late potty-trainer, and they would have rather had me be early at THAT.
I suspect a few factors had something to do with the early reading. My parents didn't have a TV until I was about 4, so reading was our entertainment. My parents were both teachers who liked to read. We spent a lot of time reading. I have a high IQ, which might have helped. (not bragging, just a possible cause for early reading.) To this day I love to read; my sister and brother don't love it quite as much, maybe because by then we had TV and less time was spent reading. It doesn't mean I'm superior to someone who doesn't read as well, just that one of my skills is reading. Other people can do things I can't, like ride a bike well or remember important dates in history. I suck at that. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous bragging is a really weird concept to me. What's in it for whom? It might make sense if it were a second life kind of deal where you live out your fantasy in a virtual world. But to do it here where you're just setting yourself up for abuse seems downright perverse (unless your fantasy has a masochistic element).
For what it's worth, I could understand pseudonymic bragging. Then at least you're creating a persona, playing a role that evolves over time and is cumulative. But if you're 16:42 one minute and then PP and then 20:17, what's the point, really? Especially when someone assumes that you're the same person as 7:03 or OP when you never would have written what she (or was it they?) wrote. |
Anonymous
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Today Show video: 2-year-old can read newspapers
April 22 MSNBC’s Janet Shamlian checks in with 2 year old Elizabeth Barrett, who started reading at 18 months. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/30349684#30345516 sorry for the commercial before the clip |
Anonymous
| There is a REALLY angry poster on here lately, and s/he would be a lot better off getting therapy than taking his/her anger (about his/her kids, small penis, whatever) out on DCUM. |