MPJ
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I have three beautiful children...
My boy is 8, top of his class, has won \'Student of the Month\' every year he\'s been in school for excellent behavior and such.
I have a baby, 22 months. She\'s playful and chatty, always smiling. A little early to tell many things but everyone comments on how delightful she is.
Then there is the middle child. She\'s 5 and in her first year at school. Stunningly beautiful girl, I had always suspected her to actually be smarter than her brother but no one else really saw it (not even the wife). She\'s a terror, one moment she\'s sweet as can be the next... well lets just say there\'s another side to her (dang Gemini).
Rather than student of the month like her brother she has managed to bring home 4 \'Blue Notices\' in the first couple months of class (the harshest punishment the schools can dish out short of suspension). The school put her into a special program once a week where a few kids work with a child psychologist on behavioral issues. Well after a few sessions he wants to talk to us, tells us he wants to work with her on an individual basis after the group class is done because apparently...
He believes she is some sort of child phenomenon. So intelligent that she is able to nearly instantly figure out what pushes peoples buttons and out of sheer boredom she goes to work on her teachers and such.
Anyway, I\'ve summarized a 2 hour meeting into two sentences but I think the gist is there. I\'m quite at a loss on what to do with this information. Scholastically she is top of her class (OK, it\'s primary and that means she can print her alphabet better than the others) but I can\'t remember a day where she has come home without getting into any trouble at all. According to the psychologist (who lectures across the UK, US, and Canada and teaches at one of the bigger local universities) our biggest problem is surviving the next 12 years until she\'s out of school. Being that some members of our family have dubbed her the \'Future Leader of Al-Queida\', survival might be a challenge indeed.
Of course many of you might recognize this post as half \'cry for help/advice\' and half \'proud daddy\', to be certain both feelings are at the top fighting for dominance.
PS: We of course have mentioned nothing of this to any of my children, don\'t need the others feeling lesser and we don\'t need to give my girl an even bigger ego.
My boy is 8, top of his class, has won \'Student of the Month\' every year he\'s been in school for excellent behavior and such.
I have a baby, 22 months. She\'s playful and chatty, always smiling. A little early to tell many things but everyone comments on how delightful she is.
Then there is the middle child. She\'s 5 and in her first year at school. Stunningly beautiful girl, I had always suspected her to actually be smarter than her brother but no one else really saw it (not even the wife). She\'s a terror, one moment she\'s sweet as can be the next... well lets just say there\'s another side to her (dang Gemini).
Rather than student of the month like her brother she has managed to bring home 4 \'Blue Notices\' in the first couple months of class (the harshest punishment the schools can dish out short of suspension). The school put her into a special program once a week where a few kids work with a child psychologist on behavioral issues. Well after a few sessions he wants to talk to us, tells us he wants to work with her on an individual basis after the group class is done because apparently...
He believes she is some sort of child phenomenon. So intelligent that she is able to nearly instantly figure out what pushes peoples buttons and out of sheer boredom she goes to work on her teachers and such.
Anyway, I\'ve summarized a 2 hour meeting into two sentences but I think the gist is there. I\'m quite at a loss on what to do with this information. Scholastically she is top of her class (OK, it\'s primary and that means she can print her alphabet better than the others) but I can\'t remember a day where she has come home without getting into any trouble at all. According to the psychologist (who lectures across the UK, US, and Canada and teaches at one of the bigger local universities) our biggest problem is surviving the next 12 years until she\'s out of school. Being that some members of our family have dubbed her the \'Future Leader of Al-Queida\', survival might be a challenge indeed.
Of course many of you might recognize this post as half \'cry for help/advice\' and half \'proud daddy\', to be certain both feelings are at the top fighting for dominance.
PS: We of course have mentioned nothing of this to any of my children, don\'t need the others feeling lesser and we don\'t need to give my girl an even bigger ego.
