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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (14726)	4/26/1998 11:58:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

You know, exceptional children INTELLECTUALLY mature at the same rate EMOTIONALLY that other children do. In fact, I think a primary reason child prodigies usually do not have spectacular achievements as adults is because all the focus was on their special talent, and not on treating them like normal children. I grew up in a family with several generations of gifted children, and I can tell you from my own experience that they need exactly what children of normal intelligence need in terms of their developmental needs. As an adult you are looking at life from a different prospective than your children do. While you might think living at boarding school five days a week with children who grew up in cold, screwed up families would make your children appreciate better what they have, your children might actually be charmed by these children, their sophistication and general state of rebelliousness, and might choose instead to sneak off into the woods with them and smoke marijuana or have a few beers and have long, soulful talks. I think you are misunderstanding what I said about the Reagans. I have clearly stated that liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans may all have serious flaws as people or as parents, and may have made horrible mistakes in parts of their lives, failing miserably, but that should not detract from what they did as leaders that was brilliant. I simply do not believe it is necessary to pretend that the Reagans were good parents, when Nancy has admitted being not a very good mother, and all the children have written books or made public comments to the contrary. I do not think facing reality belittles Reagan's other accomplishments.