tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564588470472217357.post3922370737474221753..comments2023-06-17T04:54:20.214-04:00Comments on On the Outside..Looking In (DHAM): Raising Profoundly Gifted GrandchildrenAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03699870975776139552noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564588470472217357.post-31968202014548400542011-03-31T20:57:51.089-04:002011-03-31T20:57:51.089-04:00@Anette. We have just a regular old school. BUT, t...@Anette. We have just a regular old school. BUT, they can take college courses simultaneously starting in 9th grade and theoretically anyway, graduate college and high school at the same time. So that is a bonus. 7th grade is the absolute hardest for girls anyway. Her year is almost over, next year will be much easier for her ;)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03699870975776139552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564588470472217357.post-22995370400722019542011-03-31T20:55:58.781-04:002011-03-31T20:55:58.781-04:00@Lisa. I raised so many kids through the years, tw...@Lisa. I raised so many kids through the years, two profoundly gifted, three badly FAS, the rest normal, and now with the grands, two profoundly gifted, one FAS and one absolutely, marvelously, wonderfully average. The one thing I can tell you is that 90% of the most successful people in the world were average students. They learned early how to struggle and fail and get back up. That is Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03699870975776139552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564588470472217357.post-74661970322397351542011-03-31T20:53:18.245-04:002011-03-31T20:53:18.245-04:00@Bristol. Funny how that works. My daughter was th...@Bristol. Funny how that works. My daughter was the profoundly gifted one, and we left her in grade level and did everything all the 'experts' told us to. sigh, I guess deep down, it doesn't matter at all then? Mine turned out a junkie and so did yours, and we both went different roads with a gifted child. It boggles the mind really, and now to have to do it all over again with TWO Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03699870975776139552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564588470472217357.post-89377998943197995102011-03-31T20:21:28.395-04:002011-03-31T20:21:28.395-04:00I have struggled with this issue myself many times...I have struggled with this issue myself many times. My daughter started school when she was 4. She graduated from HS at the top of her class and as the youngest. She was the last to drive, the last to do anything, yet she hung with the older ones who smoked, did drugs, were pregnant, etc. She was thrown in there really a year too early. What if I had held her back? Would she have turned outBristolvolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06176684422419228152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564588470472217357.post-41736698472539474382011-03-31T19:23:50.164-04:002011-03-31T19:23:50.164-04:00There is a reason that when our children (or grand...There is a reason that when our children (or grandchildren) are born that they don't come with instruction manuals! LOL I imagine school is difficult for both of them, but they will succeed because of their desire and when one of them finds the cure for cancer, or HIV or some other horrendous disease; or they become award-winning novelists or human rights advocate, you will know you did the Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08419235000980170328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564588470472217357.post-73595644878634729642011-03-31T15:50:55.475-04:002011-03-31T15:50:55.475-04:00You know, I do understand that are unique struggle...You know, I do understand that are unique struggles with children who are "profoundly gifted." There seem to be SO many various options within the public education system now... is that true in the state you are in? Our regular little public school is starting a charter school next year where grades are not a big consideration....all the kids will work together at their own pace in one Annettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18326425173333184401noreply@blogger.com