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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Cogito who wrote (105746)3/9/2009 6:29:12 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (3) of 541527
 
The problem with extremely bright children is that people forget that they are still emotionally and experientially children. People expect too much based on their superior intelligence or particularly strong gift.

We saw this with our older son who was a very high scoring and high achieving student in math and science, but who still made some pretty silly decisions at times. When he was a sophomore in high school he held an intern's position with a FOrtune 500 company after winning the state science fair, usually one that went to college computer majors. He was invited to spend his senior year away in a special program for very bright students that allowed them to finish senior year and freshman college year at the same time. We said no. As a senior he was offered close to triple digits to come to work with another company instead of going to college. We talked him out of that. As parents, our challenge was to try to give him breathing room and safety and time to grow in the other areas necessary to become a stable normal adult, and not just very smart, emotionally arrested child. We all know geniuses who are just flat our dysfunctional social misfits.

Not saying Krohn is a genius by any means- neither was our son- but he has an obsession and a natural verbal and theatrical ability that has him standing out in the crowd. Hopefully, his parents will protect him from his own precociousness. It's very easy to be swept away by a child's success since it reflects on a parent.
And that's my parenting rant for the day.
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