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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel bad for the child of the 'tiger mom' who is being coached for the wisc.  What pressure on a 7 year old.  And is she scores well and gets in - then what.  How will she feel when other children outpace her.  [/quote]

Tiger mom's kids will understand how to be prepared for a test or any of the other hurdles presented in life.  They will see how competitive life is, and mature more quickly (its a fact and the advanced kids we are talking about here can handle it).  Teaching your child how to be organized, prepared, and focused will lead to more success in a rigorous program, not less.  People on this board cannot seem to get it, some kids are more inherently smart.  Others have significant skills that can be honed to top form through hard work.  Look at athletes for example, some superstars dog it and coast, whereas the "grinders" (like Rudy in the Notre Dame Movie) succeed from drive and  dispite perseverance having lesser God given skill.  I applaud the tiger moms for teaching the importance of hard work and preparation to thier kids as means to achieve success in academics.  Too many fear that any "pressure" will result in their 7 year old being scarred for life.  They are not made of glass.  This is Romper Room compared to the programs of the Japanese, Chinese, Korean and many European systems where main stream kids this age are in school 6 days a week and studying English as a second language.   The pathetic rank of the US in school in achievement versus these countries is evidence that we don't work the kids hard enough.   Look at the ethnic makeup of TJ and you make the conclusion if the "culture and home value on education" does not influence as to which kids succeed.

Someday your kid will be calling the Tiger Mom's kid "boss".[/quote]

No, someday my kid will be the Tiger Moms kid's therapist.[/quote]

Tiger mom kids are never "boss."  They don't have the critical thinking skills needed to be leaders.  They're great worker bees and often excel in fields like science or medicine, but never as the boss/leader.  Think of art, film, science, fashion, technology- what great inventions were born by the kid of a Tiger Mom???  Nothing.  Cultures like those of the Chinese do great jobs at copying and replicating, but not inventing or creating.

And the WISC is an intelligence test meant to test a child's innate abilities.  There is something seriously wrong if a child needs to be prepped for an intelligence test...

Posts like these make me so glad I don't live in VA.  I'll take my NW DC private school world where, ironically, most parents aren't caught up in the test prepping Kumon world.

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