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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m rolling my eyes at you, OP.  I can’t stand pretentious braggarts and live in a hive of intellectuals in McLean, VA where every child is PG or, embarrassingly enough, smart.

Take a deep breath, OP. Enjoy your child. Maybe test to determine PG, then go from there.

Be prepared to find out that your child isn’t that extraordinary. Practice benign neglect. Please don’t raise your DC to be supremely impressed with himself. Teach manners, conversation, social skills and making friends with peers. Work extra hard at keeping your child humble and kind and involved in age appropriate activities. Aim to raise a well-rounded child. Help your DC embrace and enjoy childhood with a large range of experiences. Keep it simple.

I’ve worked with school age children for 18 years in dcum area and every school year, I see more (and younger) children struggling with anxiety, depression and affiliated health problems. It’s parental micromanagement and pressure, over scheduling  and the drive to succeed.

Watch “The Race to No Where” and get back to us here.
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Op here. You clearly didn’t read my post. I don’t live in the dc area, let alone McLean. And my stated objective is literally to make sure my kid DOES NOT build his whole identity around being Mr. Smarty Pants. In my life experience, it wasn’t until after grad school that I actually found an environment where I was surrounded by people much smarter than me (in a very unique job). I just think it would work better if DS was around other super bright kids, because it will help de-emphasize the importance of intelligence if his is more diluted. And make him realize it’s not actually that exotic to be PG or just G or just smart.

I was a teenager in college and grad school in STEM. I was also one of the only women. It sucked. I’m not trying to engineer my kid into a super achiever. I’m trying to find a way for him to like school and not have the same experience I did.[/quote]

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