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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think you can teach giftedness.  It just is.

Those nice little lists people are making?
I didn't go to preschool at all, my mother was a lousy cook, she worked so I taught myself to read, and she was also abusive (I don't remember any hugs and kisses except when she was sorry she beat me).

Somehow, despite all of that, I still managed to be highly gifted.  That wasn't necessarily a good thing.  The kind of sick status that comes with the gifted label and the weird things it can do to a kid's head are the key reasons why I do not have my kids in public school.  [b]When you teach kids that somehow by being gifted they have "arrived"[/b], it can sometimes mean (i) they think they do not have to work hard at anything, and (ii) when they do succeed, they cannot enjoy it because they are gifted so of course they are supposed to get all As or 100s or 99.9% on the standardized tests and so on.  That is not a risk I am willing to take.  Take a deep breath OP before you really mess up your kid with your "gifted or bust" attitude.[/quote]

No one I know with gifted children teaches their kids this.  Not a single person.

My kids both went through the Highly Gifted Centers in MoCo and none of their teachers took this approach either.  On the contrary, the program is all about hard work.[/quote]

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