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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]If you try to prep for the WPPSI, the test administrator will be able to recognize it and will note it in their write-up.

To each their own, though.[/quote]

Absolute malarky.  Testers should recognize and appreciate a 5 or 6-year-old  already reading and writing sentences that can add, subtract, divide and multiply.  Such an accomplishment is not unethical or immoral on the part of either parent or child even if it prepares the child to ace any "American" IQ test.  There are many 5 and 6 year-olds around the world performing at this level.[/quote]

There is no reading, adding, subtracting or multiplying on the WIPPSI and if your DC has never been in school ( you are applying for K, right) but has been taught these things for the purpose of being "advanced" you have squandered their early childhood and probably cemented a pretty unhealthy performance for love dynamic in your household. Some children teach themselves to read all on their own and some have a strong number sense intuitively, but I have never heard of a 5 year old who taught themselves to multiply and divide on their own unless you are talking basic word problems like: If Philly is 95 miles away and Mommy is driving 65 mph , we should be there is an our and  half....that I can see a gifted 5 year old doing in their head, but not 9X8=72. That is a child who has been sent to Kumon, sorry.[/quote]

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