How To Recognize a Parent of a Gifted Child

[brooksiegirl]

This sounds about right! Especially the books absolutely everywhere!

thecommonmom.com/how-to-recognize-a-parent-of-a-gifted-child/

Some truth in it, no doubt.

But are there no gifted children interested in sports? ("no football at weekends")

My db was (I believe) gifted but he was also the table tennis champion at school and obsessive about his violin playing.

And whether there are tired looks and tears surely depends on how much the parents enjoy intellectual discussions with their offspring? If the parents are academics, they might actually feel more comfortable around a child with whom they can have a decent discussion about evolution or the phonetic development of European languages. My dad, a very loving and involved parent, was much better at phonetic development than nursery rhymes.

It took me some time to adjust to ds ("But why doesn't he get it? I told this story to my undergraduates this morning and they got it so why doesn't he? I always used to come home and talk to his sister about my work when she was 6- why doesn't he understand what I'm saying?"). Eventually I realised that it was his sister who was the odd one out.

Agree on sports, my dd loves swimming but I do think most of those kids to be interested in other things. Of course broad statements don't fit all children.

Being able to have intellectual conversations is one of the things I enjoy most about my daughter! The tiring thing for me now is working on advocating for her to be sure she's being challenged.

"Almost always the higher the child?s IQ, the less bragging there is"

I would agree with that. It's the same in many things that the most talented don't have the biggest egos.

Sounds more like How To Spot The Parent Who Is Determined That Their Child Will Be Gifted.

I was a the gifted child of an alcoholic and a mother suffering domestic violence. There weren't loads of books around and I think it was quite cheap to raise me actually. No money whatsoever was spent on music lessons. I was just gifted (much good it did me). It all sounds like the usual middle class stuff to me.

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Not much of that applies to us.

DS1 plays sports a lot. He is not a keen reader, despite being rather good at it. However, he does like a stimulating conversation. He does ask questions that I have to look up the answers to. But I love it and find him fascinatiing to talk to. He also loves to discuss issues such as Martin Luther King and how he was treated by the people of America and he is then able to link it to the election of Barack Obama. He was 7 at the time.