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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What kind of freak brags about her child's meaningless test score?  LOL.[/quote]

When someone states their child's IQ in a thread about what to do with a child with a high IQ it's not bragging.  It's a data point that is relevant to the topic.  The score may be meaningless in many ways like future happiness in life, work ethic, athetic ability, fiscal responsibility, etc. etc. etc.  But I don't think it's meaningless when you are talking about educational choices.  It's also pretty well known that besides educational needs there are marked differences in social and emotional traits and needs in children on either end of the curve.

Gifted children are not better or more worthy but they are different.  Because of these differences they have different needs.  Parenting a gifted kid can be challenging and it makes it especially difficult when other parents are constantly accusing you of bragging and being outwardly hostile.  Sadly some parents are so influenced by this that they begin to play down their children's accomplishments while playing up their weaknesses and this can be damaging to their children's sense of self worth and self esteem.  These children are acutely aware and these things don't go by unnoticed.

Why don't some of you just live and let live.  Just try to give us the benefit of the doubt.  We are just parents like everyone else here trying to figure this parenting thing out one day at a time.

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This isn't wrong by itself.  But it shows a complete failure to take in anything that's been said over the last 5-10 pages.  That is, you paint a picture of being under constant attack, with everybody "constantly accusing you of bragging," and "being outwardly hostile," and other posters just not being able to "live and let live" or "give you the benefit of the doubt."

The point that several of us are trying to make--which you don't seem to be able to absorb--is that sometimes parents of gifted kids act in ways that are offensive by any objective standard, embarrassing, or disruptive.  It goes way beyond a single mention of an IQ number.  But this point can only be repeated so many times, so let's all go do something else with our time.[/quote]

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