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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I think there's a simple test: If you'd be comfortable disclosing in detail to the tester exactly what you'd done with your child, then it's probably not improper prepping. If you're hesitant about making that disclosure, then it might not be proper. [/quote]

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Sneer if you want, but the simple test I proposed is effective.

Would you be comfortable disclosing to the child psychologist that you had purchased some $800 prep booklet off ebay and drilled your child in timed exercises for 2 weeks prior to the WPPSI?  Probably not, because it's improper.

By contrast, would you be comfortable disclosing that you read to your child every night and gave her a Melissa & Doug jigsaw puzzle for her birthday?  Probably so, because that's just normal parenting.  What if you even disclosed to the psych that you secretly hoped when showing your child the jigsaw puzzle that it might somehow encourage spatial reasoning that might help on the WPPSI?  Again, I doubt many people would be too uncomfortable making such a disclosure, so probably not a problem.

My simple test isn't perfect, but I suspect it's pretty effective for normal parents hoping to make reasonable judgments about what's proper or not.  It's basically the same test that religious parents have presented to their teenagers for decades ("Would you feel comfortable doing that if you knew god was watching you?") or that lawyers joke about with clients ("Don't write anything you wouldn't feel comfortable seeing attributed to you in the New York Times.").[/quote]

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