Yes it is. Generally because for the gifted kids, homework, especially in elementary school, is nothing but busy work. It really is a waste of their time.

As a parent of a truly gifted(and ADHD) child, I have no desire to see my son as the best. There are times these past few years that I wished he were just average, or even special ed(Legal rights/protections that the gifted don't have). My son was miserable in school and coming home in tears from boredom. We finally…

It can be compounded even further, if the gifted child has undiagnosed ADHD. I wasn't diagnosed until I was in my 30's. What a difference that diagnosis and medication would have made on my college and grad school experience.

For the truly gifted it is a necessity though. For those kids who are on the very top edge of the bell curve, it is just as important for them to have specialized education tailored to their needs as it is for special ed kids at the very bottom edge of the bell curve. Most students in typical gifted classes do not…

You can be both. IQ tests are also skewed against students with certain disorders. ADHD for example, will result in much lower working memory and processing speed scores in an unmedicated/undiagnosed child. If a child's working memory and/or processing speed scores are 2 standard deviations or more lower than their…

Yeah, my son taught himself multiplication. The kid doesn't memorize(unless its lines for a play). He's still bored by the end of a unit in the higher grade because he catches on to new concepts so fast, but at least he's being introduced to new concepts now. He's also already reading(and comprehending at an 11th or…

No, my son understands the concepts. His strengths are story and logic problems. He already does basic algebra at 9 and going into 5th grade. He found one of my dad's 7th grade math books(fairly current, my dad was a teacher) and was doing problems in it for fun. The enrichment in his age-appropriate grade level was…

I was never happier than when my son brought home his first B on a mid-quarter report. It was an A by the end of t he quarter, but it didn't happen until he was in 2nd grade AND he started taking 3rd grade math. Before that his lowest grade was like a 96%, and that was on a spelling test. A child is not being given…

Parents like that give parents of kids who truly are gifted academically a bad name. I wish my son wasn't as gifted as he is. That might be awful to say, but the last 2 years have been exhausting fighting with the school administration to get him the academics that he needs so that he could stop being bored to tears.…

Can I start by saying thank you for everything you do for the kids in your district. The social worker at my son's school was a godsend when my dad(my son and his papa were inseparable) died of cancer when my son was in kindergarten. He only saw her a few times, and so was never officially on her caseload, but it…

I feel for your mom. I've spent the past 2 years advocating for my son because he was coming home in tears every day from boredom.

I was really blessed with the teachers my son had until this past year(third grade). She was so awful that we pushed harder for a full-grade skip instead of just the subject skipping in math and language arts that he was doing. At (barely)9 he is reading and understanding the Hunger Games Trilogy. I've had deeper…

My 9 year old son is one of those kids who just get math. My dad just "got" math too(me too, to a lesser degree). My son taught himself simple multiplication and division and 6 years old. We fought with the school to have him placed with the higher grade for math at the start of 2nd grade because he already knew…

The pieces of the current girls set are compatible with regular Legos(the minigures are not the same). This may not have been the case with older versions of girl themed Legos. I have also heard that they are less complex however.

The pieces of the current girls set are compatible with regular Legos(the minigures are not the same). This may not have been the case with older versions of girl themed Legos. I have also heard that they are less complex however.

The pieces of the current girls set are compatible with regular Legos(the minigures are not the same). This may not have been the case with older versions of girl themed Legos. I have also heard that they are less complex however.

The pieces of the current girls set are compatible with regular Legos(the minigures are not the same). This may not have been the case with older versions of girl themed Legos. I have also heard that they are less complex however.

Especially since the majority of those camps rely heavily on college students home for the summer as staff.

My flower girl was 2.5 and my ringbearer was 5. They were absolutely perfect. The ringbearer was from a very theatrical family, so he came alive in the spotlight. The flower bonded with one of my bridesmaid and stood quietly by her side through the whole ceremony. Granted we were married by a judge in a civil ceremony…

It's really whatever you're used to. I was raised as a Christmas/Easter Catholic, so I didn't spend a lot of time in church, but I can still kneel/stand at the right times when I'm thrown into one for a wedding/funeral. And I was really confused the first(and only) time I went to my MILs Lutheran church at the really…