SD10's big head is driving me nuts
Tired of SD10 thinking she is the center of the universe. This is going to be a big gripe fest and probably won't be very nice.
Last week her teacher nominated her to get tested for gifted and talented. That's something to be proud of, for sure...but I am telling you this child is just not as smart as she thinks she is. I'm not trying to be mean. Here are just a short list of the idiotic things she's said/done:
1)Blew out a candle I had burning because "it was wet" (she didn't know candle wax MELTS. Who doesn't know that? She's freaking 10 years old!)
2)She still can't tell time, and she can't count out money. Yes, we have worked with her extensively on this. If she buys something at Walmart she will literally hand over all of her cash to the cashier instead of learning how to count it out.
3)She claims to "read" upper level books--but she doesn't read them! She checks them out of the library, skims through them, and turns them back in so she'll look smart. She COULD read them; she just refuses to.
4)She thought you could wash hair with conditioner. Seriously. She had been explained a billion times that shampoo washes it, and conditioner only makes clean hair shiny but it doesn't actually clean it.
5)Despite being taught a billion times, she still doesn't understand BASIC punctuation--capitalizing beginning of sentances, names of people, etc.
I could keep going. Anyways, I understand her being proud to be nominated for testing. But she won't freaking shut up about it! She has told all of DH's family, plus all the neighborhood kids these exact words: "guess what? I got nominated for GT because my teacher said I was one of the smartest kids in class!" So today I pulled her aside and I told her that while she has every reason to be proud, she shouldn't be bragging about it because it gives other people the impression that she thinks she's better than them. DH gave me a slap on the wrist for that and told me I had no right to "squash her happiness".
His family constantly makes her the center of the universe and it's gone to her head and I am sick of it.
She needs to understand that
She needs to understand that being smart and being successful do not come hand in hand without some effort. And no one likes a smartass.
SD was told the same thing at
SD was told the same thing at age 9. She tested well on her state tests so they tested her for the gifted program.
You'd have thought she just cured cancer the way she and dh acted. Bragging to anyone who would liten.
Then the test results came back. Completely and utterly average. Which makes sense since she consistently makes Bs,with and A and a C thrown in on her report cards.
Nothing wrong with average, but its quite a let down after you've t old 50 people that she's a genius and being put into special classes.
She tested in the 58th percentile..... And dh kept "forgetting" and saying it was the 85th percentile. Kept calling her "my litle 85th percentiler" (eye roll)
My skid has also always been
My skid has also always been touted as gifted. Her father gave her a car when she was old enough to drive, paid the insurance but expected her to get a part time job to cover gas. We were told how awful we were for not supplying gas money and that she would NOT have a job because she has to work HARD for her grades (this, of course, is from BM). Then we were told how awful we were that we didn't get her a NEW car (this came from the grandparents).....she works HARD for her grades, doesn't she deserve a new car???? I just want to point out that if the child is working THAT danged hard, she must not be so gifted. Geez.