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easy child got on the honor roll and difficult child and I had a big blowout fight
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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 613129" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>I have this issue. All 5 of my children have very high IQs but the oldest 2 are lead poisoned and the 2 youngest are dyslexic. difficult child is the only one with no LDs. I have had to watch myself over the years and I sometimes wonder how my lack of cheerleading for difficult child's early accomplishments led to his issues. When he was selected for the Intel group at school (it takes about 5% of a grade), I didn't celebrate. When he became a National Merit commended student, we didn't party. Actually, when I became one my parents didn't even congratulate me because "it would hurt your sister." Ironically, I think my sister is smarter than I am but she doesn't have the ability to channel her intellect.</p><p></p><p>easy child just got his ACT scores and they were abysmal. difficult child had a perfect 36 in English. easy child, whose verbal IQ is identical to difficult child's, got a 20. </p><p></p><p>I am trying to push baby boy, who's in 9th grade, while not hurting easy child, who's a senior. easy child and oldest boy are both smart enough to do college but oldest boy dropped off and easy child won't even apply. daughter's lead issues involve her math skills so she's becoming an elementary Special Education teacher.</p><p></p><p>Congrats on easy child's accomplishment. Here, the honor roll is a joke. One year, 2/3ds of difficult child's class made it - he didn't. He failed math but got a 5 on the AP test for the class!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 613129, member: 3493"] I have this issue. All 5 of my children have very high IQs but the oldest 2 are lead poisoned and the 2 youngest are dyslexic. difficult child is the only one with no LDs. I have had to watch myself over the years and I sometimes wonder how my lack of cheerleading for difficult child's early accomplishments led to his issues. When he was selected for the Intel group at school (it takes about 5% of a grade), I didn't celebrate. When he became a National Merit commended student, we didn't party. Actually, when I became one my parents didn't even congratulate me because "it would hurt your sister." Ironically, I think my sister is smarter than I am but she doesn't have the ability to channel her intellect. easy child just got his ACT scores and they were abysmal. difficult child had a perfect 36 in English. easy child, whose verbal IQ is identical to difficult child's, got a 20. I am trying to push baby boy, who's in 9th grade, while not hurting easy child, who's a senior. easy child and oldest boy are both smart enough to do college but oldest boy dropped off and easy child won't even apply. daughter's lead issues involve her math skills so she's becoming an elementary Special Education teacher. Congrats on easy child's accomplishment. Here, the honor roll is a joke. One year, 2/3ds of difficult child's class made it - he didn't. He failed math but got a 5 on the AP test for the class! [/QUOTE]
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