I am being unreasonable to expect only parents with so named 'G&T children to post on this thread

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...I have 2 children ds and dd. DD has been 'officially' lisetd (for what that is worth) by the school. I never would have dreamed of posting on this thread if she wasn't listed as such.

As a mum I think both my children are fantatsic and 'gifted' in all sorts of ways - as I am sure we all do.

Isn't this topic supposed to be a helpline for parents of these listed children to give them ideas as to what the shcools ought to be doing and what as parents we can do to help these children achieve their potential.

Every now and again I look on the threads to see if there are any useful postings and it seems to be full of threads about 'is my child gifted???' 'he's reading ort dtage 8 at 2 is he gifted?'etc etc

peppered with postings from other irriated parents...

We'd not even considered this about our dd - the teachers at shcool call you in and tell you about htis list and that your ds or dd is on it - FULL STOP. You don't tell them, they know their job...

People post where and about what they like.

Some people like to think their children are gifted.

There is nothing wrong with that.

IMO there is nothing wrong with somebody posting on here 'my child can do x at x age-is this gifted?'

Part of MN is about sharing opinions.

I was going to ask if it is gifted for a child to be furniture walking at 8 months. Is that ok?!

I do worry about children who are G&T when they have such socially retarded parents though - its a bit of a double whammy sometimes isnt it? Being different because you are exceptional in some form and then lumbered with a parent who can't help you socialise but who instead encourages exclusivity.

Not read the thread, too long.

I was told recently that ds is gifted and talented at maths.

WHat pants.

He's bright, above average but certainly not gifted and talented.

The teacher had no clue.

My DCs are blardy wonderful. And they aren't listed. Anywhere. And I will post about it wherever I like.

But then I have had a leetle glass of something .

i'm still rofl-ing at 'piffle-are you xenia?'

Of course anyone can post. I'd like a thread on 'What my G and T child did next'!

If I look at my sets at school (I was top of a ten set school so, let's say I would likely have likely have been brushing shoulders with a good proportion of G and T) most went off the rails at some point or had children early.

My most successful friends (terms of financial and just great enjoyable careers they still love decades later) - most were in lower sets than I was. I've done OK but I wouldn't have been G and T as I had to work very hard indeed, just to stay in the top sets.