Any parents of gifted children here ?

[tamarind]

kiasulang,

You are in the right forum and the right thread ! I really hope that you can post more in this thread. Your views are very valuable. We are all doing what is best for our kids. No one else has the right to judge us.

I cannot believe that a person who claims to be an educator can be so rude and insensitive in the forum, and be so quick to make personal attacks on other people. But I have developed a very thick skin now, I simply ignore any criticisms by such narrow minded people.

I found out in the internet that many states in US require pre-schools to have special programs for gifted children. I wonder why the pre-school educators in Singapore are so backward ?

I remember what you wrote about your son’s pre-school principal. I think she is one of the very rare ones who truly understands the needs of gifted children.

icemountain,
I want you to know that I respect your efforts to homeschool your child. If I can afford to stay at home, I would also homeschool my kids, at least to 6 years old. The reason is because I believe that young children benefit most from one to one attention. If I teach them at home, then each of them can develop at their own pace and there is no need to conform to the others.

What you are doing is great and is the best thing that you can possibly do for your child !

[metz]

kiasulang:

Thanks Tamarind


I keep wondering whether am I in the wrong forum. I believe this is Kiasu parents forum not \"Pretend\" parents forum. Or am I in the wrong tread \"any parents of gifted kids\" or \"any parents of assumed gifted kids\".

Spot on. Are you sure you are in the right thread? Majority of the contributors in this thread has no Numbers to speak of. So, whether it's any parents of gifted kids or any parents of assumed gifted, decide for yourself.

kiasulang:

Everything you mentioned was mostly from secondary sources. Just because ones choose to believe that their kids are gifted, but are they truly?

I suppose you mean those kids that I have mentioned. (Or do you mean the parents here who think their kids are gifted?) One kid that I personally knew went for the IQ test. Like yourself, the number meant something for the parents too. Another personal friend's kids went through primary GEP and are now in secondary schools. Others, like your case, I read about from forums. I don't question if others' kids are truly gifted, as in I never feel the need to have a number tag. If their parents feel so, well, they are. Which explains why I suspect there is a great number of gifted kids around. I don't ask them to send their kids for assessments to prove it.

kiasulang:

If those who followed this tread carefully, you will know who started the spark by quoting \"Even with the gifted test results, what do the numbers mean?\". It's unfair to those parents who send their kids for assessment. It's ironical to see someone who disapprove of our education system still put their children in one and being an educator here puzzled me.

Yup, it's just a number meaningless to me. I have no idea if my kids are gifted or not. Great if they are. Great if they are not. It doesn't bother me. After all, I am not gifted too. I don't understand how my thought towards the Numbers is unfair to those who send their kids for assessment.

kiasulang:

I don't disagree for the sake of disagreeing. Do you really believe you know everything? If not why comment based on I heard from so and so. I write only of things that I have experienced not by heresay. Mostly importantly, I know which tread to write.

Everything written here is for your reference and discretion. For those who misunderstood my intention, please read the tread from where the spark ignite. why take it so hard when I said \"the number means much more to me\". I don't poke my nose on every postings-- homeschooling must comment, GEP must comment, enrichment must comment, everything must comment. why??

Seriously, I think you are the one taking things too hard. Chicken and Duck talk again.

Why must comment? Excuse me, this is a public forum for all to comment. Do you mean we need to seek your approval before commenting? Start your own blog on Getting your kids assessed before labeling them as Gfited. You will never see me commenting.

kiasulang:

This tread is for parents to share their experience on working on our gifted kids. Do you know that it is not easy to raise a gifted child? Of course you don't, you are not in the club. Do you really believe that a child who is advance than his peers is gifted? Think again and don't make your children believe that. If you have read my previous tread, you will know that I believe in \"Play to Learn and Learn to Play\" when I teach my children. I have never tell my friends and relatives about my son's abilities. I'm just a believer that a gifted child will have a gifted siblings, why is that so hard for you to digest?

Nope, I don't have a kid who has been labeled or formally assessed as gifted by any professional. I certainly hear you loud and clear through all the threads, especially so in this thread. (Though I can't vouch for others.) I have always thought of my kids as smart and fantastic kids. Right, I realised my mistake in joining this thread. If you have read the threads carefully, I have never claimed my kids are gifted. Is it so hard for you to swallow that giftedness is perhaps something others treat with indifference? Perhaps it will do a lot better if you tell your friends and relatives about your sons' abilities.

kiasulang:

Very much we would like to believe our judgments are right, sometimes different circumstances need different measures. That's what this forum is for. For raising a gifted child is not what you have read from secondary sources and pretend to be an education expert and start posting comments. Free advice to you, get first hand informations before you comment in this tread.

Not that I can remember anybody has post any comments about raising certified gifted kids here. Majority here are either, as your put it, assumed gifted or from GEP (which you claimed it's different from being gifted). My only comments about truly gifted kids are that they usually come with difficulties too.

[kiasulang]

Thanks again Tarmind


For a moment I thought my previous post is harsh but by comparison mine is peanut. There it goes, guess who is adding fuel to a fire. I agree we should simply ignore and move on.

Hi icemountain,

You are doing a great job.

[tamarind]

kiasulang,

Something I learn when my girl reads "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" to me. Whenever Mr Wonka hears something he does not like, he says "Why are you mumbling ? I cannot hear a word that you are saying !"

Some people should spend more time with their kids than posting unnecessary comments in the forum. Just because it is a public forum.

[ChiefKiasu]

Alright people… I have closed this thread as it has obviously gone past its expiry date. Clearly, there are too many viewpoints and issues for this one thread to propound. It is for this reason I did not create a special "All About…" topic for gifted children to start with.


Go create your own threads to discuss about the specific nuances of gifted children.