Anonymous wrote:These posts are nothing more than moms bragging. All pointless posts of “see how great I am.”

What did you expect from the title? Why read this thread if stories of gifted children makes you feel so insecure? Please give us an example that isn't bragging, if you think these people could tell their stories more humbly.

These posts are nothing more than moms bragging. All pointless posts of “see how great I am.”

Anonymous wrote:How can you say your kids are gifted if you have to teach them how to hold a pencil 😂 I love this board

Do you think gifted kids know that coming out of the womb? If not, they need to be taught it somehow.

OP, I suggest that you join some of the Facebook homeschooling groups - there are ones specific to Northern Virginia, secular homeschooling, gifted students, etc. DCUM tends to be very anti-homeschooling, and you will get much more helpful input there.

I have one kid in Catholic school and one who is now a true homeschooled kid. Both are teens now but were in FCPS AAP when they were younger. My true homeschooled kid is highly gifted but did not thrive in either crowded public school classes or with the structured Catholic school curriculum. Homeschooling has been wonderful for her. She is taking foreign languages, calculus, and sciences online, and for other subjects she is essentially reading on her own. She is far more relaxed and engaged than she has been in a long time. Socialization is a bit of a concern because she recently "retired" from her long time sport (figure skating) but we are working on it.

Gifted is a vague term. My kids are exceptionally bright, but not genius and not graduating college at 14. It started with the homeschooling about a yr and a half during the pandemic and we kept it going during after school hours when they returned back to school. We used standard McGraw Hill textbooks and just taught them. My middle schoolers learned all of high school math, started 9th grade in calculus. Same with biology and chemistry, but they are retook those again in high school since we didn’t do any lab work.

I think any bright kid with a decent attention span is capable of learning WAY from homeschooling vs public school, or even most privates.

How can you say your kids are gifted if you have to teach them how to hold a pencil 😂 I love this board