Reply to Pet peeve- your kid is not “too smart” he is just poorly behaved

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "Pet peeve- your kid is not “too smart” he is just poorly behaved "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid had a friend who was terribly behaved when mom was around.  She'd always say, in front of her kid and mine, that his behavior was understandable because he was gifted.  Sometimes, if we both asked our kids to do something, like get out of the pool for adult swim on a pool playdate, and mine did and hers didn't, she'd say something like "I guess there are some advantages to not being so smart".  Now, I fully admit that my kid is not gifted, but I don't think the fact that he follows directions is evidence of such.  [/quote]

OP- this is exactly what I mean! Like no, the fact that your kid won’t follow a lifeguard instructions doesn’t mean they are “just too smart for this!” It means they are poorly behaved[/quote]

And the thing was, her kid was smart enough to figure out that his mother actually didn't want him to listen.  So, it's not even fair to say he was poorly behaved, he was doing exactly what his parent expected and communicated to him that he should do.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics