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I tested into gifted in kindergarten through an IQ test.  My parents were both working class immigrants with little formal education, but they had met a friend who encouraged them to have me do puzzles and other things as a child.  So my parents listened and made me do a lot of puzzles.  I guess it paid off because I got into the gifted program.

I definitely wouldn't say that I am more intelligent than most people, but I am a creative thinker.  I think I got that from my dad who didn't have a formal education, but is a super sharp thinker.   He's always problem solving and coming up with creative solutions for things.  I think I must have picked that up from him.

We're expecting with our first child now and I'm definitely start to think about what my parents did with me and wondering if there are things I can do to assist my child in their problem solving capacity.  It's not that I would want her to be gifted necessarily, but I'd like to give her some critical reasoning skills early on that would make her life easier as she gets older.   I'm not sure if it'll work or not because at the end of the day, each child is his/her own individual and my child might be completely uninterested in puzzles or anything critical.  We'll see... [/quote]

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