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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
I am a Tiger Mom. I had my son do workbooks a little bit the summer before he took the NNAT. He got extraordinary score (140) but he may have done that anyway, without practice, who knows? I know I did all I could do to help him do well, and if I hadn't and he bombed, I be blaming myself. Do what works for your family. Good luck.

And yet my son got a 143 without wasting a minute of his childhood.

The thing is...it is not an achievement test, it is an ability test. There is no "helping him do well." There is no information to memorize and no concepts to master. Either your child is wired in a way in which the patterns make sense, or he isn't.

There is no "bombing" the NNAT or the CogAT. Again, it is an ABILITY test. A score in the low 100's would be how you would expect most kids to do. A score above or below average is not indicative of how much they know or how well they will do in life.

And lastly, "blaming yourself"?? 
Seriously??? 
You would "blame yourself" if you hadn't wasted your child's summer prepping him for an ability test and he had scored merely "average" or even "superior"??

This goes beyond Tiger Mom. This sort of attitude is damaging to a child.[/quote]

:roll:  She said her kid did workbooks "a bit" over the summer.  That is "wasting his childhood?" Give me a break.

In any case, you CAN prep for this test and improve scores.  Otherwise people wouldn't bother with test prep.  I think this is very typical Tiger mom, not beyond.  
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