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WrenP-Complete posted:I know I'm coming in in the middle here, so sorry if you've already answered this but BrandorKP, you have an 18 month old, or did? How old is your kid now? What are you doing in terms of development? In what environment? 3 years 10.5 months now. Right now we are focusing on emotional regulation and self control, persistence and the ever increasing list of words he can read and spell. In addition, enrich, enrich, enrich any thing and everything including sports. That's how's my parents stayed sane. In what environment? Heaven. We might live in the best place in the country for a child like this. Excellent community centers with really affordable programs, good libraries, parks everywhere. Idyllic frankly, nothing but opportunity. Currently his obsessions are plants and fungus. He wakes at 530 and demands specific episodes from The Private Lives of Plants most mornings. I take him out into the forests when I'm not working and he has long conversations with slime molds, mushrooms and lichens.
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business hammocks posted:How does contemporary definition of "giftedness" differ from the understanding current in the 80s-90s when most of us would have been in school? at least for the 90s I'm pretty sure the only reason i was in a 'Gifted and Talented' program was because of the public backlash against the perceived over-diagnosis of add/adhd that meant i never got tested for it b/c i made decent grades
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UberJew posted:at least for the 90s I'm pretty sure the only reason i was in a 'Gifted and Talented' program was because of the public backlash against the perceived over-diagnosis of add/adhd that meant i never got tested for it b/c i made decent grades Same, actually. Exactly.
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i got kicked out of the g&t program for pointing out it's just a system for reinforcing existing class disparity and now i console myself with g&ts
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Jun 19, 2017 19:12
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I don't know if g&t programs even reinforce anything given the number of people here who have been through them and are 4 standard deviations more bitter than average without much more to show otherwise.
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Jun 19, 2017 19:16
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It's been kind of eye opening how lucky I was to be in a good program.
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Jun 19, 2017 19:37
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It's how white suburban districts handle difficult children with overzealous parents, so it's all survivor bias because the poor and nonwhite kids were just expelled or shot dead by police.
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this thread showed some progress in its early stages but when faced with rudimentary challenges fell apart at the seams and is now barely functional. seems similar to something else but i can't figure out what!
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