Support for Parents of Gifted Children, #4 - Page 15

[luvmypoonchkie]

Oh Rynna, the excuses get so much more fun and difficult to argue with (by the way, the dress is ADORABLE, as is your birthday girl, and you're so right, BeanBean looks like such a little boy now). Anyway, just the other day Sam managed to poke himself in the tonsil with a stick from this silly honey bee game that someone on some board that I like to post on "highly reccomended". Now, he's really never been the type of kid who puts stuff in his mouth, a little when he was teething maybe, but other than that I could pretty much keep things with small pieces out without worrying he would put them in his mouth. So after I freak out about his slightly bleeding tonsil I ask him why he put the stick in his mouth to begin with. He says to me (very matter of factly) "Well, actually mommy, I didn't put them IN my mouth, I was just CARRYING them with my lips, because I was just thinking that I REALLY WISH I was a REAL beaver, and I was carrying those sticks to make my home. And do you think we could go to the store and you could find me a beaver costume". He's always got a semi-reasonable excuse for things like sawing a styrafoam ball in half with his pretend saw making a huge mess of little styrafoam bits or tying up my entire house in a labyrinth of string and tape to make an intricate pully system to open and close the hallway door.

On another note, Sam's been in a sort of a drawing "rage" as of late. His drawings have been focused on spaceships though. They don't really look like spaceships (but then again he's never actually seen a spaceship for that matter). He gets very intense and won't let anyone see them until they are "finished". He gets up in the morning and wants to draw. On a couple of days I've had to pry him away from his drawing to eat and even do the things he LOVES, like go swimming at his cousins house. He's very deliberate and thoughtful about where each line and dot should go. They all start out the same, with the same shape, but then they all end up looking a little different depending on how long he works on them. He's also done a couple of other standard kid fare type stuff (a fierce tuna, a lion and my mom's cat). Here's a couple pics, the last ones are some of the 100 or so spaceships that have piled up. I know that they're not out of the ordinary, but his intensity is what gets me.


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Jenn
Sam 3-21-02

[allgirls]

Originally Posted by NoHiddenFees

Another guest, an unemployed teacher, interjected himself into the converstation and stated, "I believe that public schools are only responsible for the education of children to a certain base level and any enrichment beyond that is solely up to the parents." When I pointed out what a disadvantage that would put poor gifted students at (kids who often end up dropping out), his answer was, "Yeah, so?"

Well maybe it's best he's unemployed :

[USAmma]

New Thread!!!

http://www.mothering.com/discussions...d.php?t=306933

[BoyGirlTwinsAPMama]

I started Kindergarden when I was 4 yrs.4mos. old and so everyone was always older than me all thru school by at least a year and mostly 1-1/2 years older. It never was a problem even in high school. I always had older friends anyways being a bit too smart for the younger kids and kids my age. The school actually wanted me to skip another grade b/c of my not being challenged enough but my mother wouldn't allow it based on her fears of a 12 yr. old wanting to date high school boys. It really would have been better for me to be skipped though b/c I ended up cutting out of 12th grade out of extreme ennui (boredom) with life and getting into dance clubs, etc... that were more challenging and interesting. She should have let me at least be academically challenged to my level, but she wasn't smart enough to figure that one out. Anyways, my 2 cents.