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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, I purposefully challenge my precocious child.

This is after I realized that coaching, tutoring, and otherwise accompanying my oldest, who has special needs, and for whom standard goals were extremely challenging, made him more resilient and mentally strong. So I applied this to my other child: she's advanced, and has zero challenges in school, because they don't want to skip her ahead for more classes than they've already given her. So she took up an instrument at a young age, does horseback riding, creates digital art on a platform with friends and writes short stories for a gaming platform where she is paid in game currency. She does violin competitions, which meets her competitive streak, and would love to do pony club and eventing, but we don't have the money.

This is because I know high school and college, and indeed life in general, are much harder than those elementary and middle school years. The transition from middle to high school can be brutal if you've skated by, haven't developed much work ethic because everything is too easy, and all of a sudden you realize you need to take as many AP classes as you can, starting in 9th grade, to even have a chance at a selective college.

I am developing her mental resilience and organizational skills, and getting her used to sustained effort and delayed gratification (there's nothing like learning the Mendelssohn concerto for a year before being able to play it in a musically acceptable manner to teach you delayed gratification).

Of course, you've got to work with your child, and go with their interests! All these are activities she chose herself. [/quote]

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