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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 359985" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>She may simply be a very bright kid. It happens, and they can also be a handful. Again - another reason to perhaps consider having her assessed. it helps to know what you're dealing with so you can help her along the way. Bright kids who are PCs still need support too. </p><p></p><p>I remember easy child at this age - she wasn't hard on her friends like this, but she was a handful in the classroom because she was craving stimulation, constantly, and her teachers found that if they didn't keep shoving work at her, she would get up to mischief. Also she had a vocabulary like a thesaurus, just like difficult child 3 when he finally started talking.</p><p></p><p>easy child 2/difficult child 2 was also a walking thesaurus - she was in early high school (age 11) and the English class were doing a poem which included the word "tintinnabulation" which the class teacher said was a good example of a made-up word which had a sort of clanging implication to its meaning, from the sound. easy child 2/difficult child 2 put her hand up and said, "Miss, it means 'the ringing of bells', it will be in the dictionary."</p><p>The teacher didn't believe her but to her credit, looked it up.</p><p></p><p>easy child 2/difficult child 2 would do things like lie on the floor with her ear pressed to the floorboards, listening to the sound of dancing feet, during dance class. It drove her teacher crazy...</p><p></p><p>The same teacher also taught easy child in Kindergarten. easy child and her classmates had also been in the same long day car together, most were the children of university staff. But all had been in long day care since infancy, and this had meant that she had a class full of bright kids who had been well prepared for school. The teacher cried on my shoulder one afternoon. </p><p>"I have a class full of leaders and no followers!" she exclaimed.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 359985, member: 1991"] She may simply be a very bright kid. It happens, and they can also be a handful. Again - another reason to perhaps consider having her assessed. it helps to know what you're dealing with so you can help her along the way. Bright kids who are PCs still need support too. I remember easy child at this age - she wasn't hard on her friends like this, but she was a handful in the classroom because she was craving stimulation, constantly, and her teachers found that if they didn't keep shoving work at her, she would get up to mischief. Also she had a vocabulary like a thesaurus, just like difficult child 3 when he finally started talking. easy child 2/difficult child 2 was also a walking thesaurus - she was in early high school (age 11) and the English class were doing a poem which included the word "tintinnabulation" which the class teacher said was a good example of a made-up word which had a sort of clanging implication to its meaning, from the sound. easy child 2/difficult child 2 put her hand up and said, "Miss, it means 'the ringing of bells', it will be in the dictionary." The teacher didn't believe her but to her credit, looked it up. easy child 2/difficult child 2 would do things like lie on the floor with her ear pressed to the floorboards, listening to the sound of dancing feet, during dance class. It drove her teacher crazy... The same teacher also taught easy child in Kindergarten. easy child and her classmates had also been in the same long day car together, most were the children of university staff. But all had been in long day care since infancy, and this had meant that she had a class full of bright kids who had been well prepared for school. The teacher cried on my shoulder one afternoon. "I have a class full of leaders and no followers!" she exclaimed. Marg [/QUOTE]
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