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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is going to sound like a humble brag but it’s not: I feel like one of my kids is too smart. She started talking at eight months and has always been insanely intellectually curious, like loving museums at age 3 and constantly watching educational YouTube videos as a kid.

And it’s like she knows too much. I know that a lot of this is just mental anxiety, but she knows all the challenges she is going to face: competition for college, salaries not keeping up with the cost of inflation, rising housing costs, increasing income inequality, difficult of access to mental healthcare, fossil fuel lobbies, the failures of many social justice initiarives, etc. She lies awake at night worrying about abortion rights and Russia’s propaganda tactics. She just turned 13 but she has been anxious about the world for a long time.

My other kid likes Roblox and fantasy novels. He does think about things like global warming, but in a more action-oriented, optimistic way.

I’m sure a lot of bright kids aren’t anxious but don’t assume intelligence means somebody is going to lead a better life. [/quote]

Also, I did a ton to foster all this intelligence. I spoke to her like an adult since birth (people made fun of me but I really wanted her to start talking so I could know what she was thinking!), I gave her fish oil, I took her to lots of historical sites and museums, I basically did everything a parenting book would tell you to do to foster a child’s intellectual growth. When people saw how smart she was and asked me how I did it, I did focus on the idea that my daughters motivation to learn came from her, but I did tell them what I did. Now I wish I had said “just relax” (in a non-condescending way).

[b]With the next kid I just let him watch truck videos all day[/b]. [/quote]

Hmm.  I have been letting my son watch truck and train videos too but I thought this meant I was doing great 🤣.  I’m trying to foster his natural love of construction and vehicles, etc, but I’m a civil engineer so I was hoping it would be something we could share together. 🤷🏼‍♀️[/quote]

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