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cassia
When I was a child, my home, village and school were extremely poor and inadequate.
Every few years, it was re-discovered that I was intellectually far above average and no one knew what to do about that.
The school had no enrichment nor advanced programs and I was very very academically bored most of the time because it took me a fraction of the time to get the educational content compared to my schoolmates.
If I learned something in 5 minutes, I was always expected to sit quietly for the remaining time (ex.45 minutes ) while the lesson was repeatedly pile-driven into my classmates.
I was not allowed to read ahead, nor do any other activity.
Re: All parents seem to want child prodigies, but what if they actually had them? January 02, 2017 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 3,716 |
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Cambion
A lot of parents seem to think their children are geniuses when a vast majority of them are average at the very best, or they want their kids to be geniuses. But if they sat down and really thought about it, would they really want such a bright child?
I watched something recently about the smartest kids in the world and it just got me thinking about how loads of parents seem to want their kids to be Mensa material instead of just being happy with a typical child. I don't mean parents who can't accept the fact that their kids aren't gifted and act like every single fucking thing their kids do is incredible. I mean parents who have bona fide child prodigies. I'd say it's not all it's cracked up to be.
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freya
I'm almost positive you were a child art prodigy weren't you Cambion? How did your parents deal with that?
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Re: All parents seem to want child prodigies, but what if they actually had them? January 08, 2017 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 9,982 |
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I think most American breeders, when they think of child prodigies, they want SPORTS prodigies. People and schools love to spend resources on sports, the top 3 being football, basketball, and softball.
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