Are average children

[MissUndastood]

a thing of the past? It seems most DIS kids are gifted. My kids are average and awesome despite their averageness

 

[happygirl]

a thing of the past? It seems most DIS kids are gifted. My kids are average and awesome despite their averageness

My kids are average in the school eyes, but to me there are both genius!!!

 

[Deb in IA]

The DIS is located in Lake Wobegone, you know - where all the women are strong, the men are handsome, and the children are above average.

 

[wvjules]

My daughter is average and awesome as well.

 

[Toad_Passenger]

The DIS is located in Lake Wobegone, you know - where all the women are strong, the men are handsome, and the children are above average.

See, and I thought all of the men were jerks (at least the ones that get posted about). Of course, the ones who do post are supremely handsome.

 

[joviroxx]

My kids are average kids but very extraordinary to me!

 

[kamik86]

I think most of the people that post about how their kids are have gifted kids.

It also depends on how your measured. I tested gifted for many things but I have anxiety issues talking to people and don't really make friends (for a few reasons not just the gifted thing). I also just completely can't do some things.

I remember in high school someone I talked to once in a while that tended to fail classes and was generally considered to be pretty dumb (which I'll admit he had no common sense and did some dumb stuff but academically he was smart enough) and he tried to explain something to me about cars. He was surprised when I looked at him like he had 3 heads and told him that besides knowing how to drive it and put gas in it I was clueless. He didn't understand how the girl that was about to graduate as valedictorian could not know any of this stuff. I think everyone is "gifted" in certain areas. The ones with labels just happen to be gifted in the areas schools teach about.

And if you saw this post before I edited to add this you would also realize that I have no spelling ability at all. Spell check to the rescue lol.

 

[tlbwriter]

The DIS is located in Lake Wobegone, you know - where all the women are strong, the men are handsome, and the children are above average.

Except the ones who have special needs. Like everything else on the DIS, the kids are one extreme or the other.

 

[dngnb8]

Why does this thread not surprise me. My daughter has had to deal with this type of "humor" her whole life. She has been made to feel guilty because she was different then "average" kids.

Now I know where the kids get it.

 

[tmarquez]

Eh...people like to brag on their kids.

I don't know anything about being "gifted", but I did just spend almost a week at Disney with my own DD and her friend...and let me tell you...being with someone else's kid for that long has made me appreciate DD even more.

Don't get me wrong, I like the girl...she is very polite, well-behaved, all that stuff but just doesn't seem to "get" things.

I always thought (from knowing "gifted" kids as a child) that along with the smarts, the gifted child also had some sort of issue as well...usually social?

 

[dngnb8]

I always thought (from knowing "gifted" kids as a child) that along with the smarts, the gifted child also had some sort of issue as well...usually social?

I wonder where they get that from..... Hmmmmmmmm

 

[tmarquez]

I'm thinking brain chemistry? But then again I'm just average so I wouldn't really know.

I wonder where they get that from..... Hmmmmmmmm

 

[Deb in IA]

See, and I thought all of the men were jerks (at least the ones that get posted about).

Can't they be handsome jerks? (I've known a few of those . . . )

 

[dngnb8]

I'm thinking brain chemistry? But then again I'm just average so I wouldn't really know.

response analysis

deflection, make yourself the victim, profit.

I wonder why the gifted kids have the issues.......

 

[dnoyes]

My youngest daughter is flunking out of college after 3 years of good grades ..... not gifted.

 

[MissUndastood]

I wonder why the gifted kids have the issues.......

I don't think anyone on this thread would know. Remember we are all parents of average kids

 

[tlbwriter]

Why does this thread not surprise me. My daughter has had to deal with this type of "humor" her whole life. She has been made to feel guilty because she was different then "average" kids.

Now I know where the kids get it.

Um... I think this post is poking fun at the fact that so many DISers seem to have gifted children. I don't see how it's making fun of your daughter (who I have to admit I know nothing about).

 

[Toad_Passenger]

My kids aren't to the age yet where the schools decide to apply labels to the children. However I know that, even if they don't meet the school's definition of "gifted" that they will each have certain traits/abilities that will help them excel in whatever it is they like to do.

When push comes to shove every kid is the same, good at some things, not so good at others. Is the kid who is "gifted" because he/she excels in math, really any better than the kid who is "average" in math, but "gifted" on the Soccer Field? With the proper motivation and training, each can go far in their field.

 

[princessnoelly]

Average....but needs help to be. DD7 just got a reading tutor, hope she'll be back in the average area on reading by the end of the summer. Too soon to tell if DD5 (she'll be 6 on Friday ) is average. DD5 has a heck of a temper on her so when it comes to pitching a fit- she's world class!

 

[palavra]

Except the ones who have special needs. Like everything else on the DIS, the kids are one extreme or the other.

That describes my daughter perfectly. Believe me, at times I have so wanted to have an average child. DD has ADHD and is gifted. I don't feel ashamed that my daughter is high needs and over active any more than I feel proud that she is gifted. It is her composite makeup.

I have come to really dislike labels, both positive and negative. Lables imply generalities that are so often just plain wrong. For example, I have heard people say that ADHD kids are just "bad kids" due to poor parenting, and I have heard people say that gifted kids will grow up friendless because of inadequate social skills with peers their own age.

To me, "average" sounds like just about the best thing I could hear about my daughter because that would imply that she fits in like other kids. I look forward to the day when the world can celebrate the uniqueness of every person, and, yes, I know it will probably never be.