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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dang you're organized! I think the list you generated is really good. My kid will have similar stats. Please don't call your daughter (below) average. Mine brings a ton of wonderful qualities to the table, and I'm sure yours does, too. Good luck! 
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For PP who suggested it, she's actually thought about teaching, but doesn't see herself as "smart enough" to teach. Her assumption is that all teachers were really good students. I've told her that is not the case, but who knows? I think she could be great at interior design or something in fashion, but she doesn't have a strong art background. She's not a kid who has ever devoted herself to anything yet to find "her thing" which is my only reservation about a smaller school for her, which otherwise I think would be a good fit.[/quote]

Obviously she has a limited understanding of what it means to be “smart” - as is to be expected  of a high school kid. You described her as “high emotional IQ”. So, she’s smart - very smart. And in a way that matters a lot. A real lot in most parts of life. Some academic high achievers can be sadly lacking in this area.

Regardless of what she pursues as a career, it would be valuable learning for her to understand multiple intelligences, how they apply to her, and how to build her self-esteem around the real facts of who she is rather than thinking of herself as “not smart enough”. Howard Gardner is the Harvard professor who developed the theory of multiple intelligences and he has a website at [url]https://www.multipleintelligencesoasis.org[/url] with lots of resources. You might offer her the book, “You’re Smarter Than You Think: a Kid’s Guide to Multiple Intelligences”, by Thomas Armstrong. She apparently has talents that she either minimizes and undervalues or is not aware of. She will thrive to the extent that she builds on her strengths. To do that she needs to know what they are.

I wish you well with your search.[/quote]

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