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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please don't flame me for this, because I'm genuinely asking if anyone else has been in this situation and how you handled.

My kid - age 5 - is a bright kid, and friendly and very happy to talk about his myriad interests with a fairly advanced vocabulary. As a result, teachers, relatives, friends' parents, strangers are constantly telling him how smart he is (good intentions of course), and he's definitely noticed, and calls himself smart - I feel like it's going to his head. From what I understand from Nurtureshock and elsewhere, that's not a particularly great message to tell a kid to set him up for lifetime success.

I try to talk with him about how there are all sorts of intelligence and how while he may find things like reading easy, some things may be harder for him, etc. but I don't know exactly how to handle this generally. Wondering if others have been in this situation and how you handled. 
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Don’t worry. He is not. All mothers think so. You are no different.[/quote]

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