to get v. bored with people telling me what a genius their child is?

[emkana]

I know a few mums in my dd's class who are very fond of telling me how brilliant their child is, and I find it v. tedious. Yes by all means say your child is doing well and I will say how pleased I am for you. But then to go on and on... what can I say to that other than "that's great, really pleased for you" over and over?

I'm sorry, you don't seem to be taking seriously HOW GENIUS my children are. They REALLY ARE GENIUS. Scrumpy, indeed.

Is the plural of genius genii? Or is that supernatural beings, wisps of smoke and bottles I'm thinking of....

Yeh but I was using it as an ADJECTIVE, which you would know if you had any whiff of GENIUS about you fmf.

Can it be an adjective?

I'm not sure it can

Dictionaries are so passe ORM. True genius resides in mashing up language.
{Cuts off hands, has wasted too much time on MN this morning and must earn lucre to support genius children}.

In Germany we don't have the term G&T, thankfully.

But we do have genius children and their overambitious parents. "Mein Kind ist hochbegabt" There are even "hochbegabte" societies where the parents can share their hopes and fears.

Emkana - in answer to the original question, the reply you are looking for is

"Gosh, really? Where does she get that from?"

I suggest wearing trainers for the above remark, you may need to run quite fast.

Oh No, can't leave. HOCHBEGABT! How cool is that? My children are no longer GENIUS they are HOCHBEGABT. What does that mean actually?
is Begabt "begifted?" and what is "hoch"? Is it the falsely modest cough that one uses before telling everyone what GENIUS children one has?

Don't you know that some people lie about their childrens development.

Weirdly, it's always the kids who are actually very average that get "bigged up" by their parents.

Must go, I have to take my 3.5 year old to his quantum physics lesson.

But ALL my children ARE geniuses. Esp ds2 who doesn't speak because his little head is so full of profound thoughts and who can find the Thomas video no matter where we hide it. I need to tell more people about his brilliance.

toomanydaves - I never claimed to be a genius except for my dressing-as-a-prirate-while-consuming-scrumpy-and-falling-off-lorries gift.

God, you non-genius types are so boringly pedestrian

You may have noticed that his genius didn't come from his mother who can't even get the underline facility to work...

pmsl at hoch observation. Perhaps you do have a tiny streak of comic genius, daves...

i was waiting to speak to dd2 class teacher. there was parent there going on about how well her dd was doing and can write 'mummy, daddy and her name' i was bored. but where she was talking there was a picture of dd2 writting down the names of HSM character. it did make me giggle.

oh i am so so childish.

and i should 'fatten' my name back up after last nights crash diet.

My ds is extremely gifted and talented, he can spot a chav a mile away on the council estate where we live, has learned to roll my cigarettes, gets his own breakfast and can change his own nappy whilst i'm busy watching educational, informational tv programs like Jeremy Kyle. And hes not even 2 yet

oh, and did I tell you about DD's incredible artistic talent. She is definately hochbegabt.

lol at toomanydaves. It means highly gifted. Anyone know the French word? I would love to use that, would sound especially poncy.

Yeah but to be hochbegabt you have to pass the IQ test with a certain minimum score. Forgotten what.

I know a dm whose ds (at the age of 6) did the test and is officially "hochbegabt". He's a lovely boy, sweet as they come with huge melting eyes but for Christ's sake that woman. She is so concerned that there is no school in Berlin that would challenge him. Yes, darling but that applies to every dc in town if you ask me.

He goes to chess club (yes well so does dd, darling and actually they won the German championship - not that I'd tell her that). He plays the guitar, simpering look from under her eyelashes. Yes well dd plays 2 instruments and she's bl* good if you ask unmusical me but I wouldn't go telling her that.

Does she not see how pathetic she comes across saying these things? I never respond other than to nod wisely, sigh and say, yes ,yes.

Dd is not highly gifted, I'm pretty sure of it (cos if she was she could do maths, right?) but she gets opportunity and I teach her, encourage her a lot so she is good at some things.

I reckon all this gifted stuff is a load of baloney

We had a Mum arrive at tennis the other day which is held in the school hall. She marched in through all the other Mums and crouched on the floor with her ds (3.5) and proceeded very loudly to get him to read the words which were on the noticeboard. Cue snorts of laughter at the sad sad Mum showing off and looks of sympathy at her poor ds who was clearly being paraded in front of us as the latest child genius. This Mum also couldn't understand why he wanted to run about and play on a visit to a stately home. She wailed to me that he just didn't seem to get the historical value of the place!

in French it is doue(with an acute accent) or douee for a girl.
Which you would know if you were really hochbegabt.

lol toomanydaves. Did you just google that?

no of course not I have a double first one of which is in french. I got it when I was 7.

I think Emkana you should not be saying, that's great, I'm very pleased for you.

I also have this dm in dd's class who I am trying to fob off a bit at the moment. She's so relentlessly efficient, she makes me feel very tired.

Her dd is brilliant too. She has extra lessons in this and that, something every evening after school. She tells me "Anna is always tired" and looks almost pleased that she is working her so hard and the way she looks at me it's as if she's expecting me to approve of this (?!)

The df said to me, they work her very hard and then complain to the teachers that she is ahead and needs to be challenged more at school but they don't want to move her up a year.

To me they sound like they've totally lost the plot. Why would you think it good that your 7 year old is always tired out? (They're Russian btw). A lot of Russian families I know here think a bit like that

god I hate these threads

I just refuse to believe that there are all thsese competitive mums out there

i dont know ANY - I think people often take things the wrong way and are insecure in teh first place