Ooops, posted that before Cathy's post. I meant no disrespect! My paddles at least were in the solitary comfort of the hall, .

Kriston, she is an amazingly resilient person. She is ok despite all she went through.

We're all sort of posting willy-nilly! Lots of overlap today.

That's the best way, I think, though it can lead to some confusing threads if we're not careful.

Still, great fun reading it all!

Of course she is! I mean, duh! She sings in the bathroom! Ergo ipso facto and all that...

You see, I may have weird crushes, but I choose them quite wisely.

I must be better at it Kriston, you were only lagging by 40 posts this morning.......(((ducking and running)))

(Feel free to take that on as a personal challenge!)

Nevermind, Dottie. It's kind of a funny story about the birth certificate. My mom was born on the first of the month. The first birth certificate her mom was given had the wrong birthdate written on it. It was listed as the first of the previous month--probably because everyone had a month to get used to writing that.

Anyway, she got a corrected birth certificate but kept the wrong one. When it came time for my mom to go to school, it happened that her birthday was just after the cutoff. Then her mom remembered the incorrect birth certificate. So the one she gave the school was absolutely genuine. Just had the wrong birthdate on it.

I'm completely new to this site and looking for some suggestions/support, etc. We have a five year old daughter who is definitely advanced and possibly gifted. She fits many of the descriptions listed on this site to a "t." Her Kindergarten teacher suggested we wait a few years and then have her officially tested once she's older.

Our issues are less about her intellectual capacity and more about her emotional issues. She's intense, highly sensitive, anxious, resists change, etc. and it's causing problems with her socially and within the family.

She's obviously very young, but I'd like to know if any of you have followed a plan of action that helped you with some of the issues we have above.

I'd appreciate any insight!

Thanks!

LOL! When I'm on this website, DS7 is frequently standing over my shoulder. He could care less about the actual posts though. He often comments on the number of posts you two have however. He is very impressed!

He thinks I'm a slacker though. I think I just generally feel less qualified to answer posts. I'm on here reading plenty!

rlmom, here's a great resource for you at the SENG website:

http://www.sengifted.org/articles_index.shtml

Another good source of info is http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/

For our own family, I'm not sure I could say that I have a plan of action--but we have worked on some of these same issues with our kids. I think you have to know when to encourage kids to try something and when to let it go. There are moments when my kids are more receptive and I try to take advantage of those growth opportunities. I'm sure that's very vague advice but it depends so much on the child and the personal dynamic you have with your child.

Do you have something specific you are concerned about?

I snorted aloud when I read this.

Qualifications? We don' need no stinkin' qualifications!!!!

Seriously, my attitude is that opinions are like...ahem...well, you know what they're like, and everybody has one! I just feel free to share mine more often than others do! (That's my opinion, naturally. Not my ahem. LOL!)

Seriously, I cringe everytime DOTTIE brings up the numbers! Let me post in peace, woman!

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