Your parents were wildly academically qualified compared to mine (neither of them are dumb, but they both left school at 14 to work).
They were totally supportive of their cuckoo kid, and followed the advice they got from the school. Which led to a certain amount of misery on my part, mostly through being enrolled in the National Association for Gifted Children. Not that the NAGC was badly intentioned, just that it was run for and by middle class parents and kids, and had no cultural cross over with a scruff from a comprehensive in the slums.
My take away from that is not to put your child in an uncomfortable social setting - they'll already feel isolated and alienated enough, and will do till they hit a wider range of people in a less threatening environment (University, in my case).
My best advice is probably antiquated - give them your library ticket and a bike to get to the local library. I guess the internet means that those books can come to them. But get them the bike anyway.
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Date: 2013-08-19 01:01 pm (UTC)They were totally supportive of their cuckoo kid, and followed the advice they got from the school. Which led to a certain amount of misery on my part, mostly through being enrolled in the National Association for Gifted Children. Not that the NAGC was badly intentioned, just that it was run for and by middle class parents and kids, and had no cultural cross over with a scruff from a comprehensive in the slums.
My take away from that is not to put your child in an uncomfortable social setting - they'll already feel isolated and alienated enough, and will do till they hit a wider range of people in a less threatening environment (University, in my case).
My best advice is probably antiquated - give them your library ticket and a bike to get to the local library. I guess the internet means that those books can come to them. But get them the bike anyway.