All About GEP
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2ppaamm:
I had a college mate who could do that. He stopped learning the piano at a young age (disliked it), and then decided he loved it again. So he'd be in the student's mess playing on the piano. He was a really sweet guy who managed to woo quite a few gals because of his instant ability to replicate songs (with very complicated chords) he'd heard on the radio (he was 5 ft nothing :lol:). Anyway, he went off to Taiwan to marry his girlfriend and is probably a bigwig in the music industry now :D.
Yesterday my daughter told me that she has a classmate who could do just that. She never had a day of lesson, and she can replicate everything my daughter played with both hands! And it was a Mozart Sonata?!!! :!: -
2ppaamm:
I had a college mate who could do that. He stopped learning the piano at a young age (disliked it), and then decided he loved it again. So he'd be in the student's mess playing on the piano. He was a really sweet guy who managed to woo quite a few gals because of his instant ability to replicate songs (with very complicated chords) he'd heard on the radio (he was 5 ft nothing :lol:). Anyway, he went off to Taiwan to marry his girlfriend and is probably a bigwig in the music industry now :D.
Yesterday my daughter told me that she has a classmate who could do just that. She never had a day of lesson, and she can replicate everything my daughter played with both hands! And it was a Mozart Sonata?!!! :!: -
2ppaamm:
Yes, looks like we both share the same beliefs. Indeed, things do happen for a reason. We have learnt so much from him and till now we are still learning. He is more comfortable with books than with other children and it is heart breaking to see our child struggling with friendships. What is the use of knowledge when the others could not appreciate his ideas and start to alienate him? He's definitely one of the least popular kid in the class :(, but we are working hard to help him develop his social skills. It takes a lot of effort and time, but it's definitely worth the effort.
Hi bcet0104,bcet0104:
I have a son who is highly intelligent and quirky (I am not sure if he is qualified to be labeled gifted or not, but it doesnt really matter to us). There are times when we wonder if he has Aspergers. After numerous assessments, it was concluded that he is just the typical high IQ, low EQ child. He may pick up academic knowledge easily but he just can't handle \"gray matter\"... to him, the world functions solely on logic and everything is either \"black or white\".
Your kid sounds like mine. Just that mine is a confirmed case of AS. But hey, we can always take everything in a good perspective, and I do believe everything happens for a good reason.
Perhaps you can understand even better where I am coming from. Being gifted or intelligent is really no big deal. So what if one is the smartest person in the world, and without a friend.
Without social skills and EQ, any person will become irrelevant. What should we choose - intelligence or wisdom. For my kids, I will go for the latter - anytime. With wisdom, everything else will fall into place.
Given a choice, we would rather that he grow up with fond memories of his childhood, one filled with friendship, love and happy moments. Then again, not all is lost as we do see signs of improvement in his social skills.
It's great to know that there are other parents out there who shares the same thoughts
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bcet0104:
How strange... that's exactly the position I am in leh. The GEP HOD told me that she has never met a case like mine ever since she started teaching GEP. She started when GEP started. :faint:He is more comfortable with books than with other children and it is heart breaking to see our child struggling with friendships. What is the use of knowledge when the others could not appreciate his ideas and start to alienate him? He's definitely one of the least popular kid in the class :(, but we are working hard to help him develop his social skills. It takes a lot of effort and time, but it's definitely worth the effort.
Given a choice, we would rather that he grow up with fond memories of his childhood, one filled with friendship, love and happy moments. Then again, not all is lost as we do see signs of improvement in his social skills.
It's great to know that there are other parents out there who shares the same thoughts -
well some of the gifted kids are more mature as compare to other kids of their same age. So these gifted kids will see the later as childish and immature and subsequently avoid making friends with them. As they have higher iq, some or most of these gifted kids simply do not understand why the other children would do things in the 'stupid' way and why they could not understand a simple logic or problem which they think is 'easy' :idea: .... So maybe all the above reasons constitute to their behaviour problem or social skill problem. That is my analysis after 'studying' my ds behaviour but luckily he is not that bad...he is still able to make friends in class... :roll:
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vlim:
well some of the gifted kids are more mature as compare to other kids of their same age. So these gifted kids will see the later as childish and immature and subsequently avoid making friends with them. As they have higher iq, some or most of these gifted kids simply do not understand why the other children would do things in the 'stupid' way and why they could not understand a simple logic or problem which they think is 'easy' :idea: .... So maybe all the above reasons constitute to their behaviour problem or social skill problem. That is my analysis after 'studying' my ds behaviour but luckily he is not that bad...he is still able to make friends in class... :roll:
Sigh! What's the point of having an IQ of a 17 year old and the social skills of a 4 year old? Having said that, there's so much we can learn from such imbalance and so much innocence behind that smart alec. Just waiting for the day the EQ matches the IQ, and I know that day will come, as long as we refuse to give up. -
2ppaamm:
yup thats right...got to be patient...vlim:
well some of the gifted kids are more mature as compare to other kids of their same age. So these gifted kids will see the later as childish and immature and subsequently avoid making friends with them. As they have higher iq, some or most of these gifted kids simply do not understand why the other children would do things in the 'stupid' way and why they could not understand a simple logic or problem which they think is 'easy' :idea: .... So maybe all the above reasons constitute to their behaviour problem or social skill problem. That is my analysis after 'studying' my ds behaviour but luckily he is not that bad...he is still able to make friends in class... :roll:
Sigh! What's the point of having an IQ of a 17 year old and the social skills of a 4 year old? Having said that, there's so much we can learn from such imbalance and so much innocence behind that smart alec. Just waiting for the day the EQ matches the IQ, and I know that day will come, as long as we refuse to give up.
:love:
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[quote]phankao wrote:
Way2GO wrote:
There's something in that pledge about 'regardless of race', u know?
Your wife is a local born Malay. The Malays are accorded special privileges, in particular free education, under the Singapore constitution. You must know this. Are u tapping into this to milk the system?
No longer right? I thot the scheme expired after the 1980s or early 1990s...
It's in the constitution.[/quote]There's definitely some change but I too lazy to go dig out the info. There's some reasoning behind it too. -
[quote]EN wrote:
I thought the child's race follows the father? Friends of mix marriages still need to pay full amount of school fees. It is only this year that there is a change. Open to parents to decide what to state the child race is.
Children with one expat parent hv the best of both worlds.
They hv a choice to go international or get into the local schools
if one of the parents is at least a PR.
Mrs Cawley is a Singaporean by birth.
Ainan was in Bukit Timah Primary.
PRs and SCs all pay token sums in local primary schools.
How much is tat? Very minimal sum.
Recently, the gahmen announced that the PRs 'd hv to pay more
to differentiate the PRs fr the SCs. Also a token gesture.
And what's the diff? For many, still negligible[/quote]Aiyahh.....not all caucasion are on expat term, house, school, medical, transportation, recreation paid for by the company. International school fees are extremely exhorbitant. But then in local Singapore school, often I see pure caucasion kids. So children of mix parentage, it makes sense to be in local system. Cheaper mahh... -
vlim:
yup thats right...got to be patient...
:love:
well said. it's a long wait.. and i have a feeling it will take us a few more years to get there. at least there's some light at the end of the tunnel.
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