My 4 Yr Old Son's FSIQ is 131, Now What?
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Anonymous
| I do not understand where all of this hostility is coming from? So your brother, the doorman, got more love from your parents than you. Boo hoo hooo. You really showed them with your Masters lmao. 1st of all, I never claimed my son to be a genius, I was simply asking for suggestions to further his development. Thanks for your kind advice Masters lol. |
Anonymous
Snippety snap. Hahahaha. Love that. Hope I will remember that for later on. Thanks for the laugh. |
Anonymous
Just for future reference, it's Wechsler . . . and I'm glad your son did so well! |
Anonymous
1. Get "OBX" sticker for car. 2. Make sure son grows up to be as obnoxious as you are. Good luck! |
Anonymous
Hahahahahah!! |
Anonymous
Ooops, I guess OP didn't score 131 herself! Must be her husband's genes. |
Anonymous
I don't really get why people are being so sarcastic about her comments. Not that I'm particularly impressed one way or another, but it's done all the time on this board. |
Anonymous
Oops--my English teachers would not have been pleased with my sentence construction! When I said "it's done all the time," I was referring to the posting of IQ scores. Of course, there's a lot of sarcasm floating around this board, too. |
Anonymous
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Welcome to the private school forum, OP. You have stepped right into the sh@t that is this forum, and I think it's fair to say this forum has a worse reputation than any other forum on DCUM. Except for maybe the Flame Me! thread.
When you raise the subject of IQ on this forum, you will get several types of response: (1) Mockery: "your kid will end up cleaning my kid's office." (2) The superior/snooty response: "so what, every kid in the area is as smart as your kid." (3) The poster(s) who come on here to wail about how nobody understands her needs ... oops, I mean the needs of her gifted kids, not of the poster herself (to be fair, a lot of posters make things all about themselves). If you disagree with whatever she's wailing about, she will say: "you're jealous and you don't understand because your kid is 'merely' normal." Hey, you got a few helpful responses, count yourself lucky. |
Anonymous
No, a typical 4-year-old at the 98th %ile will look a lot like other 4-year-olds. It's high enough (if it stands the test of time) to suggest that the individual will be able to pursue whatever academic interests they have, but not so high that they will be difficult to educate, intellectually overwhelming, or jaw-dropping smart. You need to understand how scoring on the WPPSI works. First, it is pretty sensitive to enrichment at home - questions about vocabulary and background knowledge, puzzles and building with blocks, some reasoning - while different kids will show the benefits of the enrichment to different degrees (some kids really are little sponges), all kids will be helped by this kind of environment, and it shows up on the WPPSI. Second, because young kids develop so unevenly, a very high Full Scale score can come from several high-but-not-that-high subtest scores - for 4-year-olds the whole really is greater than the sum of the parts. OP, this is a terrific score, and I would just keep doing what you've been doing - talk to your child, read, provide lots of enrichment, help him/her pursue passions, visit the library and museums, etc. For a 4-year-old, that's plenty! |
Anonymous
:roll: Where to classify this? Patronizing? Check. Your kid really isn't as smart as you think? Check. Your kid isn't as smart as my "jaw-dropping" kid? Check. |
Anonymous
| 10:07 here. That was supposed to be the eye-roll thingy. Guess I'm not as smart as I think. |
Anonymous
This interests me. Why would someone do that; i.e., what are the benefits? |
Anonymous
I meant the abacus part, not visiting museums. |
Anonymous
Not to worry. A lot of people are not as smart as they think. That may be very true for posters here. |