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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been seeing all of this competitiveness and general freaking out over 6 and 7 year old's test scores.  Jeezus-these are babies.  You people have a seriously long road ahead of you if you are stroking out this soon.  I hate to see you when it is college application time.

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What bothers you so much about this?  Does reading this thread make you insecure about your own kids? or about your own parenting?  I am not a freak because I am invested in my child's education.  Here is one profile a "competitive" crazy parent:  My child taught herself how to read at 3 years of age, begged for piano lessons at age 5 (and is excelling), asked to be taught how to multiply when she was 4 and immediately grasped the concept, asks on a regular basis if she can please work on her "third grade math workbooks" simply because she enjoys it.....these are a few examples.  DC did not attend a heavily academic preschool and none of the above examples were pushed and certainly NOT forced upon her by me.  I've watched her go through PreK3, PreK4 and kindergarten not being challenged academically at all and I've been OK with that, because she's just a kid and had loads of fun anyway.  Now that she is in the first grade, she is being offered whatever "pull-out" classes the school has the resources for, but I think she needs more.  Just got the NNAT scores and DC did not make the 132 benchmark, not even 130.  So.....I'm thinking - I know this kid needs a more challenging curriculum, but I can't stand in front of the screening committee and list all the ways my child is extraordinary, now can I?  They will see a very limited profile of my DC and decide what is appropriate for her. Two test scores and one teacher's evaluation.  So I start asking - what can I do? what should I do?  what have other parents done?  And posters like you jump all over it and call parents like me nuts.  I don't get it.   [/quote]

Hmmm.  To me- it appears you are trying to relive your life through your child's.  You are looking for validation.  Your crazy rant proves that you have gone off the rails.  Check yourself.[/quote]

Wow.  Ok, I give up.  I don't think that looking for ways to help your child is crazy. I think people visiting forums and commenting on them with absolutely nothing useful, but just for sake of attacking other posters is "off the rails." Don't understand the motivation, but have just decided that well - I don't have to understand it.  As other posters have suggested, I will ignore and carry on.  [/quote]

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