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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A fellow parent is always complaining to me that her child is “gifted” and hence bored at school. We have had literally dozens of conversations about this. So far, I have been polite. Her conversations imply that my child and other children in the grade are too dumb to be in the same class as her kid. She should either take action and have her child skip a grade or enter a talented and gifted program or just shut up. Da Vinci and Einstein and even Bill Gates are/were geniuses but I seriously doubt the giftedness of this child is going to make a difference to the world.[/quote]

Truly gifted children are not bored - they are in their heads.  I took my DD for evaluation for ADHD - she never was attentive in class, didn’t understand the directions on assignments, etc.  she always “looked” (to the teachers) like she was paying attention.  She wasn’t. She was checking out the birds outside or thinking about swimming.  She wasn’t bored!  She wasn’t interested, which is different.  Anyway, she is truly gifted and has already skipped a grade.  To me, this is about stubbornness- we all have to pay attention to and do crap we don’t want to.  Heck I don’t want to cook dinner tonight or fold the laundry, but it’s not a function of my giftedness - it’s because I don’t like those things and have to do them anyway.  Similarly, my kid needs to pay attention and do the work in class - nothing to do with her giftedness and more to do with her manners.  Apparently the mom you refer to also has bad manners[/quote]

The mom has bad manners and I’m glad your child isn’t bored but it’s simply not true that “gifted people” are never bored! Yes, may escape into daydreaming but plenty get bored sometimes. (And no, I’m not replying because my kid is gifted and bored.) [/quote]

It’s 100% true that gifted children don’t get bored. Anyone who says they have a gifted child who is “bored” doesn’t have a gifted child. The child might be advanced academically but they aren’t bored. Gifted children can always find something to entertain themselves and don’t need the direction of a teacher.

I have had more than one teacher explain this to me, including those who work with gifted children.

Unfortunately, we mix advanced and gifted children in programs. They actually have different needs. But the typical child in, say, AAP isn’t “gifted.”[/quote]

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