Name change for this, and difficult to talk about with real friends. How clever are your clever children? Is there a benefit in doing intelligence testing?
DS is 6 and from a very early age people have remarked on how clever he is. It’s hard to put your finger on why; he is advanced academically, but there’s also something about the way he thinks and talks that makes a lot of people say, “have you had his IQ tested? He’s really quite clever!” But perhaps people always say this? He js our first so no comparisons, although school have also said he’s switched on and thinking in a way that’s unusual for his age.
DH and I are reasonably intelligent people (terminal degrees from good unis, working in careers where people say “oh you must be very clever”). But I don’t know if his intelligence is particularly different from that of other children.
We are wary of labelling him or putting him through unnecessary testing so I don’t know what benefit an IQ score would provide, except that it may open doors in secondary school for him (we are currently abroad and may return to the UK in a few years).