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My mom used to say, they're all smart until they go to school. lol......
To me this means something different. Kids learn like crazy until they get to school and the schools beat them all down into the same level and force all behavior to conform. Creativity is discouraged and sometimes punished. The schools want well behaved little cogs in the wheel, not innovators and thinkers. If there are 25 kids in a class, there is no room for the independent thinker or the child who wishes to forge ahead or to focus more time on a special interest.
The class all has to move at the same pace and the really smart kids are soon bored, sometimes bored to the point that they turn off.
To me this means something different. Kids learn like crazy until they get to school and the schools beat them all down into the same level and force all behavior to conform. Creativity is discouraged and sometimes punished. The schools want well behaved little cogs in the wheel, not innovators and thinkers. If there are 25 kids in a class, there is no room for the independent thinker or the child who wishes to forge ahead or to focus more time on a special interest.
The class all has to move at the same pace and the really smart kids are soon bored, sometimes bored to the point that they turn off.
I tend to agree with you here. Not sure what else we can do about it. There are different types of schools for people who want different types of learning (montessori) but those tend to cost quite a bit of money that not everyone has.
I just wonder because I don’t have kids. He is just so funny and seems extra smart but maybe it’s normal. He will be 3 in August. I was telling him how there was a toy missing for a long time and the dog found it. He said to me “it was under the couch”. I just thought it was so smart that he understood what I was saying. A few months ago we were at a restaurant. They gave him a toy from. “Treasure chest”. A few weeks later when we were there he asked about the “treasure chest”. He knows the alphabet. He knows all colors and animals. He usually knows when someone is joking with him. Maybe it’s normal intelligence but I like to witness it.
At that age my daughter was conversing in complete sentences.
She's very smart.
She was in trouble constantly from the time she was 12. Arrested, sneaking out at night, sneaking boys in, pregnant twice in high school (), clashes at high school, poor quality friends. She has had husbands I did not meet and children she did not raise. An internet search showed her as a fraud who impersonates a nurse even though she is not one (we couldn't get her to go to college). We have been lied to, lied about, defrauded, manipulated and embarrassed almost continuously. She simply ran circles around the psychologists as she manipulated them, too. She even threatened to kill her friend's mother if she told on her; she was 18.
I think pre school/toddler kids appear very smart because their learning is starting from virtually zero. They are learning all the time. It doesn't mean they are unusual.
I think pre school/toddler kids appear very smart because their learning is starting from virtually zero. They are learning all the time. It doesn't mean they are unusual.
This. Have you ever heard someone say of a preschooler “that kid is as dumb as a rock”?
Sounds like a great little guy, and you can think he's smarter than the rest.
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), clashes at high school, poor quality friends. She has had husbands I did not meet and children she did not raise. An internet search showed her as a fraud who impersonates a nurse even though she is not one (we couldn't get her to go to college). We have been lied to, lied about, defrauded, manipulated and embarrassed almost continuously. She simply ran circles around the psychologists as she manipulated them, too. She even threatened to kill her friend's mother if she told on her; she was 18.
