Oh, I was SUCH an airhead when I was pregnant! Just an idiot! Really!

Did I mention I almost ran out of gas with no money a second time, after the first? And there was a big backup on the interstate, so I had to take backroads to get home so that I didn't get stuck there without gas? I made it home on fumes! I had to use some of the gas for the lawnmower and borrow my husband's credit card so that I could make it to the gas station, or I wouldn't have made it to work the next day.

And this was after I ran out the first time!

Seriously, I was a disaster! Since then, I have always kept an emergency $20 bill in my car. On the bright side, since I'm not preggers anymore, I've never needed to use the $20 again. It was a temporary condition. Thank goodness!

My middle baby turned 5yrs old TODAY! Triple sniff sniff sniff.

Oh dazey! They do grow up too fast, don't they!

Awww! Happy birthday, Dazey's baby!

hehehe, my baby turned 27 on Sunday. I don't remember having brain lapses during pregnancy, but I don't remember much now-a-days!

I saw an article once in an obstetrics journal about the average IQ drop for women in their 3rd trimester. It was significant (10-20 points,, I think). The point of the article was that even bright women will require different educational materials when they are "impaired."

My baby is 12years old and I'm loving it. I have never once looked back or been nostalgic about those first 5 years, but I have never been a baby person.

I'm 100% with you, acs. I wanted my kids to be born at 18 months, walking and speaking in complete sentences!

It helps that I have very cuddly kids, so I don't miss out on snuggles. If they stopped doing that, I might feel a bit more nostalgic.

(But I doubt it! I like to sleep!)

I keep reading references to lower achievement in VSL kids. ONe was at a teacher chat board - that using achievement tests to select kids for gifted programs will miss VSL kids. Can anyone speak to this lower achievement in VSL kids? If true, is it b/c classrooms are not geared toward strongly VSL kids?

Dazey

I'm no expert, but yes, Dazey, I think that has a lot to do with it. They learn differently, and regular classrooms often don't meet those needs.

I think even the achievement tests themselves often aren't written to make good sense to a VSL kid. That means that VSL kids might not perform as well as they could if they were given a test that met the VSL person where s/he is, intellectually speaking. Just like I wouldn't do very well on a test given in Portugese, VSL kids don't show what they can do as well if given tests that were designed for non-VSL kids.

I think you need to define "achievement". DD11 is a very attentive, committed student who gives school her all. But in what seems like a symptom of her VSL (LD?), she makes lots of seemingly careless errors along the way. Her achievement tests are not your typical 95th+ GT achievement tests, particularly in the more rote work.

But I would NOT call her an "under achiever" by any stretch. This is how I read that that particular bullet.