I'm struggling with how to express this, but wondered if anyone with older dc could help. DD's mentioned to me a couple of times 'everyone says I'm very clever' and I can see that she's finding it (a) awkward and (b) a bit hard to know how to deal with.
I was also round at a friend's house yesterday - her dd is a friend of mine, same year at school etc. Friend passed some jokey remark about something I'd said 'you're always so clever' and her dd made a slightly pointed comment 'like X, she's so clever'.
I think it's something that's never really been an issue before - but now she's moved into yr 7 / secondary all of a sudden they have end of module tests with marks discussed in class, peer marking of books etc and it has become more tricky.
Obviously it is balanced out by all the things she's rubbish at - I suspect dd would much rather not be invariably last by miles in her chosen sport and be a bit more average in her maths tests - but others don't necessarily see that!
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Dealing with the 'clever' label - anyone with older / secondary age dc
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EmmaGoldmanSachs · 20/11/2013 09:29
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