I prefer the term High Learning Potential but there you are.
Can we discuss joys and concerns of being an HLP adult, with reference to how we deal with watching our HLP or any ability kids grow up?
This thread is not to justify why we think we qualify or for false displays of modesty, but to share problems and discuss solutions.
For starters, how much baggage and preconceptions do you think you carry and project from you own childhood experiences of school onto you child? I know I do it all the time.
Are YOU overexcitable or intense yourself and so modeling it and feeding it in your child?
Do you think the school system in improving with the very new focus on the higher end of the achievement spectrum?
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Au79 · 14/01/2014 05:16
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