Aidan...Possible Genius Potential ?

[Meenah]

You all have me laughing here!!!!!
Luanne

[Phoebe]

Kris- you are cracking me up. I read this the other day and immediately decided it is time for my DD to learn her alphabet. I put daddy on that one because she doesn't want to learn from me and he makes it a game in the bathtub. BTW, I meant my older daughter.

Jennifer

I don't think you have a thing to worry about, Kris. DH didn't learn the alphabet till he was....6....and was almost held back in kindergarten.

[PrincessFiona]

Erica...same thing happened with my daughter. She couldn't have cared less about the alphabet. When she was in Kindergarten, my little genius would look at a letter and when I asked her "what letter is this" she would respond "five". I felt like she was doing it just to irk me...which...based on my experience since then is probably pretty accurate. :> She actually went to summer school after kindergarten and at the end, the teacher said "everyone is ready for 1st grade but Amanda". :thud: Ahhh, the pride I felt! We started her in 1st grade anyway because our district would have only put her in the 1/2 day program again (7.45am-10.10am daily) and we didn't think she would benefit from such a short day again and so much of the 'same'.

I met with her 1st grade teacher the second week of school and told her "I think Amanda is learning disabled...I wonder if she is suffering a brain injury from birth...she only had an apgar of 3 when she was born". Obviously, the teacher deserves a medal for dealing with me. This teacher is actually a friend of mine now...so at least she's used to my neuroses! Within 3 weeks of me basically telling the teacher that my daughter would never read...Amanda came home reading. She is actually my strongest reader. That child constantly has her nose in a book. At her parent-teacher conference this year (4th grade) the teacher complained to me about it. Amanda doesn't pay attention when instructions are being given, etc..she always has her nose in a book.

kris

[Gwendolyn]

Within 3 weeks of me basically telling the teacher that my daughter would never read...Amanda came home reading. She is actually my strongest reader. That child constantly has her nose in a book. At her parent-teacher conference this year (4th grade) the teacher complained to me about it. Amanda doesn't pay attention when instructions are being given, etc..she always has her nose in a book.

I will throw in my education background and say that Kris's daughter is exactly what the research shows. There is no correlation of pre-school and even kindergarten performance to later scholastic ability.

[PrincessFiona]

There is no correlation of pre-school and even kindergarten performance to later scholastic ability.

Whew! Thank goodness. So far DD excels at picking her nose. Seriously, the kid is obessessed with her nose and what's up there. You've given me hope that she may still be ENT guru yet...or an archeologist

Andrew (11) had his first band concert before Christmas. We got a new DVD videorecorder and recorded it. What do you think the FIRST image is that we have of him????

Sitting waiting to play...picks nose...puts finger in mouth. :!

Again...so much pride!

kris

[SueC]

Oh Kris, the fun you can have with that tape when he starts dating!
I should hope preschool skills don't correlate with performance later on, my preschool cares very little about letters, numbers, or writing (though she recently has taken to practicing her name princess-style with swirls coming off the letters), but some of the crazy ideas she comes up with leads me to believe she is at least kind of intelligent.

I'm glad to hear about the preschool / later performance thing, too. Jacob is doing much better now at montessori - but last year the women at the JCC were very disappointed in him. They told me "Most of the OTHER children write their name (he was 3)". The best thing they said about him is that he "seems to enjoy helping other children".

I didn't like them.

:>

[Meenah]

This thread is too much fun. I had two daughters, the first ahead of schedule on development, the second behind schedule. I swear they both were talking/reading and writing when they graduated from high school. They were also both "potty trained" when they entered kindergarten. Today, the daughter that was "behind" has a GPA of 3.5 in college!!!!!!!
Luanne

Don't be too hard on yourselves as parents, and do not give in to parental peer pressure.

[Meenah]

I hope that didn't sound preachy, that was not my intention.
Luanne

....While Aidan and Sven used the Dyson today, George W. came to the door to sell Trader Joe products at his home sale party next week.

....wearing an unbelievable deal of a dress he got at Anthropolgie.

....While Aidan and Sven used the Dyson today, George W. came to the door to sell Trader Joe products at his home sale party next week.

....wearing an unbelievable deal of a dress he got at Anthropolgie.

Matt, you crack me up!

....While Aidan and Sven used the Dyson today, George W. came to the door to sell Trader Joe products at his home sale party next week.

....wearing an unbelievable deal of a dress he got at Anthropolgie.

You're hillarious.

[Rapunzel]

I hope that didn't sound preachy, that was not my intention.

Not preachy at all. I like to be reminded about reality by people who have lived it!!