My DD went to her first 'Extended learning workshop' for G&T children, she seemed to really enjoy it and came back full of all the fun facts she had learnt.
I'd known for a while she was way ahead in reading ( 6 years old and already on Prisoner of Azkaban ) and last school report had key stage 3 as her reading level. She's good all rounder academically and also enjoys playing rugby!
I don't tend to shout about her achievements or the fact she is on the G&T roll as I'm really not into the whole yummy mummy thing, in fact I tend to hang back at the school gate with my MP3 player firmly implanted in my ears!
I'm a single parent and don't see the need to dress for the school run like I'm going to the Queens Garden party and stand around comparing and contrasting every last detail of my child's development stages!
I've lived in this area since she was born ( I live with my parents) and couldn't afford a 3 wheeler space station style pushchair or the latest gap clothes and I could see the way they all looked down their noses at me at playgroups etc!!
But it is nice to boost sometimes hence why I'm here, both me and DD have the same issues with her smartness, me getting frustrated with the constant questioning, the best being during a fireworks display when she needed to know how and why the fireworks worked instead of just enjoying them!
While she is popular she is often called Geek or excluded for being a teachers pet ( although the teacher described her as Marmite ( luckily this teacher loves the constantly having to justify everything to her, the last one wasn't so keen!))
I've had family say I'm going about her intelligence all wrong ( some saying I'm doing the wrong thing by not getting her a scholarship to a private school, others saying I shouldn't let her be on the G&T roll and should tell her to hide her talents so she'll be popular or marked out as different )....Jees if parenting isn't hard enough with out this!!
Anyway after prattling on all this while I guess I should ask a question! NAGC worth joining?
I think that is it, hope you haven't got to the bottom of this and though woo this women has a gifted and talented child and writes posts like this poor child!!
Look forward to talking and sharing with people.
Me :O)