Reply to S/O - If you were a 'gifted' kid, how does that inform your parenting choices?

Forum Index » Infants, Toddlers, & Preschoolers

Reply to "S/O - If you were a 'gifted' kid, how does that inform your parenting choices?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]My own gifted childhood has left me deeply ambivalent about the value of formal education.  I believe that being loving and joyful are skills that some children need to be taught, and those lessons are more important than any academic skills.

I was a gifted kid, who probably would be considered 2E today.  I went to shitty public schools and was taught next to nothing between k and 12.  Most of what I learned at home, I learned through reading or with my family. I almost dropped out of high school multiple times and then took a few years to party and work crappy jobs.  After I got sick of cleaning up after other people, I weaseled my way into a decent liberal arts college and found that I can actually learn when smart professors teach.  I went on and got a Ph.D. in a useless discipline from a University that thinks it's more intellectual than the ivys.  My intellectual experience in grad school was just amazingly mind blowing and I feel so lucky to have had it.  Now I have a good job and good home life.  I'm an underachiever for the program from which I graduated, mostly because I don't want to do the work required to be really successful.

I think that smart people are smart no matter what, and thus I think that middle class people fret too much over the education of their children.  That said, I wish I'd had better training as a child, particularly in math and science.  I think education can be a really powerful means of self discovery, but I also know a large number of very smart, very unhappy people.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics