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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an average person and would like my child to have a chance at being a high achiever in life. How can I help or guide him? [/quote]

Talk to them all the time, starting the day they are born.

Narrate your life. Explain concepts, vocabulary, causal relationships.

Your kids will literally be years ahead of their peers.[/quote]

This has nothing to do with a kid becoming high achieving [/quote]

Shows how much you know :-P

"There was a direct correlation between the children who’d heard a lot of parent talk and how prepared they were to learn once they arrived at school. Hart and Risley wrote, “With few exceptions, the more parents talked to their children, the faster the children’s vocabularies [grew] and the higher the children’s IQ test scores at age 3 and later.”"

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/42177/what-parents-can-gain-from-learning-the-science-of-talking-to-kids[/quote]

Higher IQ does not equal driven.[/quote]

PP here who initially posted about talking to kids (I did not subsequently post the study info)

Agree that high IQ does not equal high achieving.

But constant narration and discussion also helps develop communication, critical thinking, a moral code, etc.

I’d argue that, taken together, these factors dramatically increase the likelihood of being “high achieving”.

Also makes for strong, independent human beings, which was goal #1 for us.[/quote]

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