If you are wicked smart, what about your kids?

[Anonymous]

DH and I are smart, probably in the 130-140 IQ range. Two of our kids are very smart, probably both smarter and more motivated than we were at their ages.

Youngest is probably in the high average range. We think she may have some processing speed issues although she hasn't been tested. She is very creative and verbal, but not as motivated to do well academically. Sometimes I think she may be the most successful of our family because of her tremendous social skills. It will be interesting to see how they all turn out!

[Anonymous]

Was in the gifted program when I was young--now two kids with lds, speech delays, and OT issues. Oh, well.

BTW, don't bother with Kumon. Not evidence based. How's that for dorky?

[Anonymous]

That's a very interesting family dynamic with the pp who knows the IQ of three generations in his/her family. I love how family cultures are so different. I learn something here every day about the way other families do things. Neither good nor bad, just different. There is no way that anyone in my nuclear or extended family would ever discuss IQ. It just would not happen. There is no discussion of SAT scores etc. It is a high achieving family across generations. My siblings and I have seven Ivy degrees amongst the three of us, the same with first cousins etc. But I have never had a conversation about scores or IQ with any relative. Maybe our family culture is the odd one?! It just never occurred to me that IQ would be something people would know about or discuss.

[Anonymous]

It is an anon board. Not something to discuss with another person. IQ testing has been around for a long time, and was used extensively in previous generations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's a very interesting family dynamic with the pp who knows the IQ of three generations in his/her family. I love how family cultures are so different. I learn something here every day about the way other families do things. Neither good nor bad, just different. There is no way that anyone in my nuclear or extended family would ever discuss IQ. It just would not happen. There is no discussion of SAT scores etc. It is a high achieving family across generations. My siblings and I have seven Ivy degrees amongst the three of us, the same with first cousins etc. But I have never had a conversation about scores or IQ with any relative. Maybe our family culture is the odd one?! It just never occurred to me that IQ would be something people would know about or discuss.

But you will discuss that you have 7 Ivies. Really?

[Anonymous]

I think pp meant that her family wouldn't discuss scores. My family wouldn't have either. I have an Tue, Jan 22, 2013 sibling and another who was a national merit scholar and ivy grad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I wish we lived in Falls Church or Rockville, amongst more striving immigrants who would serve as role models. DH and I are both 99.9% and so are both kids, I'd say... but they float along with A- because it's easier not to work very hard.

And they are so different - the younger one is a thinker, introverted like us. But the older one loves sports, people in groups, managing things. It's hard to guide her correctly - trying to think about preparing her for business school, which we would never have considered. Reading the new book _Quiet_ http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com/ helps give me perspective on who she is.

I only read the first page, so someone else may have already commented...this is a joke, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes I wish we lived in Falls Church or Rockville, amongst more striving immigrants who would serve as role models. DH and I are both 99.9% and so are both kids, I'd say... but they float along with A- because it's easier not to work very hard.

And they are so different - the younger one is a thinker, introverted like us. But the older one loves sports, people in groups, managing things. It's hard to guide her correctly - trying to think about preparing her for business school, which we would never have considered. Reading the new book _Quiet_ http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com/ helps give me perspective on who she is.

I only read the first page, so someone else may have already commented...this is a joke, right?

PP, again, I read through the rest of the thread and did not see another comment. I never realized other DCUMs thought Rockville and Falls Church were 3rd world.

[Anonymous]

I'm smart, but my husband is crazy smart. So far my 3 year old seems above average. She is already teaching herself to read. We shall see.

[Anonymous]

18:12 I know. Most people in this area can't even afford those two cities.

[Anonymous]

I am also a hard worker and even is I had a child with learning disabilities as long as they work hard and find happiness, I could care less. I just want my children to be happy kids who turn into happy adults who contribute to society. Not sure how "smart" my child is but the way he gravitates toward logic (puzzles, pattrens, numbers) is straight from my husband, who, along with his 3 siblings, majored in Civ Engineering. But oh, the way he runs into walls and trips over air (isn't that spacial intelligence or something?) is alllllll me. Not a coordinated bone in his body. Poor thing.

[Anonymous]

PP here - even *if* - told you the bar isn't high on my side lol

[Anonymous]

Oh yeah. My kid's got a GENIUS IQ. So do I.

...and he misplaced his French horn (that thing is huge..I don't know how one loses one of those) on the same day I dropped my phone in the toilet.

It's a test that measures a few things well.

[Anonymous]

Dh and I are both very analytical. In high school we could take it easy and get decent grades. In college, I had bad study habits but finished with a GPA over 3.0. Dh did extremely well when he was motivated. I don't think dd can get by without studying harder than we had to. She also is not as interested in math and logic as we are. But she has a great deal of emotional intelligence that dh lacks and much more than I had at her age. She wants to be a therapist and I think she will be fabulous at it.

[Anonymous]

I'm ok smart, DH is ok smart. 7 year old son just went through neuropsych testing and probably has around 130 IQ.

I love him despite it.