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Is J gifted (and should I give up)?
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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 534384" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Yes, you're on the money, SuZir. I think the main problem with J IS a social one. At school during class time... no problem. He is quiet, concentrated, engaged in producing whatever he is asked to produce. Whenever there is a particular activity focused on him - eg yesterday seeing this doctor and answering her questions - he is truly good as gold. Charming and very engaged with the person. With children smaller than him, and animals, he is tender, solicitous, responsible. However, with his peers he is still overly aggressive and/or too noisy/intense/full-on. Yesterday in the city I also had to take him to get his passport renewed, which involved him sitting in the general waiting area while I talked to the consular official. There was a row of children behind us (all Moroccan). They were aged between about three and seven. At first, J seemed to charm and engage them, singing them a song he likes and talking about it. But then, bit by bit, things got increasingly rowdy and by the time I came to collect him (I was just near him but couldn't see him to speak to him during all this time), he was trying to play-fight with a very quiet and timid looking boy and was singing loudly and all the adults and children looked more than somewhat fed up with him and very unimpressed, doubtless, with me... He simply does not know how to tone himself down to adapt to others and give them "space". And then we go and see this doctor who is thoroughly charmed by him and did not stop telling me how sweet, intelligent, engaging and wondrous he was <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>So there is the problem - in the social relationships. But how does one help him with this??</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 534384, member: 11227"] Yes, you're on the money, SuZir. I think the main problem with J IS a social one. At school during class time... no problem. He is quiet, concentrated, engaged in producing whatever he is asked to produce. Whenever there is a particular activity focused on him - eg yesterday seeing this doctor and answering her questions - he is truly good as gold. Charming and very engaged with the person. With children smaller than him, and animals, he is tender, solicitous, responsible. However, with his peers he is still overly aggressive and/or too noisy/intense/full-on. Yesterday in the city I also had to take him to get his passport renewed, which involved him sitting in the general waiting area while I talked to the consular official. There was a row of children behind us (all Moroccan). They were aged between about three and seven. At first, J seemed to charm and engage them, singing them a song he likes and talking about it. But then, bit by bit, things got increasingly rowdy and by the time I came to collect him (I was just near him but couldn't see him to speak to him during all this time), he was trying to play-fight with a very quiet and timid looking boy and was singing loudly and all the adults and children looked more than somewhat fed up with him and very unimpressed, doubtless, with me... He simply does not know how to tone himself down to adapt to others and give them "space". And then we go and see this doctor who is thoroughly charmed by him and did not stop telling me how sweet, intelligent, engaging and wondrous he was :) So there is the problem - in the social relationships. But how does one help him with this?? [/QUOTE]
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