Posted by Dinah on March 1, 2005, at 10:25:20
Is anyone familiar with the special problems they face?
My son's IQ doesn't qualify him as Einstein, but he's easily in the 99th percentile. And nearly everyone we've consulted over the years feels that part of his problems come from that fact.
I always read that his level of intelligence was ideal. That any higher and you might have trouble relating, but you can do pretty much whatever you want to do scholastically.
But the parenting experts and the two therapists we consulted all feel that he is always going to have difficulty relating to his peers in some ways. That because he's very bright, very sensitive, and very mature in his understanding of behavior, that he must find it difficult to be around childish behavior all day. Again, I know that my son can be childish on occasion. But it is true that he finds some behaviors that kids engage in (like teasing and horseplay) deplorable.
We've sent him to a school where a high IQ is no big deal. And his teachers teach him as much as he can learn, now that he's in a higher grade anyway. He was a bit bored in kindergarten. We don't make a big deal of his intelligence, but focus on his effort. And I don't push achievement or competition at all.
I don't see that it should be a huge problem for him. But admittedly my IQ is not as high as his, and I might not understand.
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