Where to bring toddler for giftedness assessment?

[Ngck]

  On 2/24/2012 at 3:40 AM, Phuakangtao said:

Anyone?

2 year old ca. Do math and spell hippoPotammous

 

 

just chill and let them have a normal childhood... if they are gifted, no need to test they will also stand out among the kids..

 

new parents are all like that...

 

 

look at facebook....

 

"wow look at <insert name> he can do <insert activity> at 14 months"

 

"my baby is so smart he can do <insert activity> at 18 months without help from me"

 

so on and so forth..... but so what? normal happy childhood wins everything.... you dun want him to grow up to be a freak and socially awkward

[JackRabbit]

Sammyboy forum... this is the 1st test of giftedness... if can make it there, can make it anywhere... new york, new york!

[Hibeam2]

Phuakangtao, are you Sabbie?

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[Tuna_seng]

He may be gifted in IQ. But please do not neglect the EQ also. Seen some high IQ friends of mine (GEP) but grew up kind of weird and without many friends. Socially awkward as well. Dunno how they feel. Must be tough.

[Tuna_seng]

  On 2/24/2012 at 5:56 AM, JackRabbit said:

Sammyboy forum... this is the 1st test of giftedness... if can make it there, can make it anywhere... new york, new york!

 

Yes the lights will inspire you......

[Curahee]

  On 2/24/2012 at 4:49 AM, Ghostami said:

If he/she fail the test than how? Tuition and make up classes all his/her life? Make sure don't overdo it if not your kid might end up as 1 of the numbers in the imh list.

 

Test fail liao, maybe the tester will recommend parent to sign up their failure kid for genius recovery programme to recover the child genius/gift den take the test again... $$ into the pocket again

[Changman999]

  On 2/24/2012 at 6:04 AM, Hibeam2 said:

Phuakangtao, are you Sabbie?

Topic and replies bear certain similarities...

 

Can we stop all this finger pointing s--t? It's really getting irritating to me, just accept each other whoever he or she is, all these online identities s--t is just BS.

[Solar]

  On 2/24/2012 at 5:24 AM, Cheepo said:

There is a thread in kiasuparents forum on testing IQ of young children. Your 2 year old is indeed a fast learner. But there are different types of giftedness so it is quite interesting to see how they develop.

 

Don't place your hopes too much on our GEP programme. It is not really designed for gifted children, but a syllabus with more interesting stuff to occupy the minds of kids with higher IQ.

 

just share a little about my kid... attends neighbourhood primary 1..not gifted type... almost 3 mths now.

two weeks ago, parents were asked to attend a course about higher chinese.. talk about teaching hanyu pinyin, parents are supposed to be involved in the teaching at home.

also, weaker kids have to attend remedial lessons on wednesdays and saturdays for their english & maths.

 

they are also having spelling and 听写every week, and have to give a simple synopsis of a book they read every week

 

wth.. just 2 mths into primary 1 and got to do all these?

can't imagine what's going to happen inside those gifted classes.. especially if the kid is not a 'real' gifted, but thru hardwork

 

and i'm not sure what's the criteria for 'gifted'.. a gifted kid may not be only academic.

he can be very good with music, sports, or even art. how? i hope the program is not some factory to churn out robots..

[The_Bear]

  On 2/24/2012 at 5:23 AM, Changman999 said:

Everything is relative, compared to my peers, I am s--t, but then again in life, try to be contented. Same for the parents of this kid, he's only less than 2, nurture him well but do not destroy his childhood in the pursuit of genius.

In your case, Absolut.

[Changman999]

  On 2/25/2012 at 1:55 AM, Bavarian said:

In your case, Absolut.

 

I drink, Bears drink Bavarian?