
Parenting Big Kids (5-8) Support Group
This community is focused on the joys, challenges and concerns faced by parents of big kids (5 to 8 year olds). The major areas of child development include: physical development, perception and sensory development, communication and language development, cognitive development, emotional development and social development. Join to share your stories and get advice.
With an IQ of 145 he is able to learn fast.
I am negotiating with school and hoping to move him to 1st grade.
Any other parents with gifted kids
I wonder if a Montesorri school would be a good place for him?
Melissa
My son is bored out of his mind in Kindergarten, honestly, I don't think he really likes it. It makes me kind of sad because he so loves to learn and his teacher just doesn't seem to appreciate that or want to challenge him in anyway.
She actually told me not to ask him to sound out words until after Christmas because that's when the class was going to start doing it (never mind that he can already read). What kind of approach is this, the everyone must move at the same speed aproach?
We are meeting with the school next year to implement the plan for the next 5 years.
I have mixed feelings about this. I think the primary problem is my son's teacher who keeps telling me my son has Apergers because he's so smart and mechanical but is behind socially. I took him to the pediatrician who basically told me his teacher was full of beans because my son had no problem looking her in the eye or understanding facial expressions. All the "symptoms of Aspergers" that he has at school he doesn't have at home or in small groups. Only at school where he says he is bored and where they make him do mundane tasks that he has no interest for. And where he says he doesn't talk to people because there are "too many kids".
Sorry, I think my irritation might be coming out a bit in this post. Why do we live in a society where we value free thinking and independence in adults but teach our kids that being free thinking and independent is a vice. That they should sit down and be quiet and and do everything submisively and not even complain when they are upset, because if they don't do all these things there is something wrong with them. For crying out loud, the boy is 6!
I also have an Autistic kid with Aspergers and yes he has social problem that we working with him.