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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Do people really believe that their kids are so misbehaved because of their high IQ's? Really? That's a cop out.

We need to throw that excuse, along with "spirited child," out of the window. Are some kids more difficult to civilize than others? You bet. If you get one of those kids do you get to twist it into a plus (he's smart!) or get out of dealing with it (he's spirited!)? No.

There's a reason that there are more out of control kids now than when we were growing up, and it isn't that kids are getting smarter. [/quote]

I'm the mom who first posted that her son is a defiant ^$% a lot of the time, and I mentioned that he has a high IQ.  The reason that I bring that up is because it's more difficult to manage him than it might otherwise be.  The standard parenting, time-out, Magic 1,2,3 books are birdcage liner to us.  That whole 'give them a choice of the red pants or the blue pants' thing?  No.  Never.  I know other people reading this know exactly what I'm talking about, and I think it's very interesting that we all have boys.

That is not my cop-out.  I'm not copping out at all.  I have mental calluses from repetitively staying on this kid, and I'm not afraid to be tough in private AND public and embarrass us all.  I do the hard work now in hopes that he's not going to be a brilliant, failure-to-launch, pot smoking gamer at 27 who wrecks my car because I won't let him live in the basement.

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