[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Reading that, think maybe I'M a gifted child Ammi . A 32 year old one...

Wait...

"A gifted child may be able to participate in adult conversations about issues such as global warming or world hunger one minute and the next minute cry and whine because a sibling took a favorite toy."

...The whole of SD's is gifted children?

On a more serious note, we've had quite a lot of discussion with her school and tbh they've kind of already "screwed it up" a bit. Her P3 teacher handled her terribly in terms of her emotions, she actually became incredibly anxious (especially about school) for several months to the point that it was a horrible battle even getting her to go most days, for several months. She came through that great, really, except that in her anxiety evaporating (or probably as a tool she used to get past it) she just transitioned into becoming sassy AF with her P3 teacher wheich has carried over into P4. Now she's constantly on the naughty list for back-chat and eye-rolling . But yeah, a lot of those things do apply to her and I'm not 100% convinced her school is really "on it" at all.

...it always makes me very sad to hear of your school experiences, TS...and I would like to say it’s not typical for a school to not be ‘on it’ and that you should persist in them getting on it and staying on it...but since my return to work, sadly the education system doesn’t seem ‘on it’ at all and is lacking in many areas which is very sad and deflating to see...not necessarily because of questionable teaching staff though...just government guidelines and targets and Ofsted targets to be reached to prevent a failing school...(..even though if it’s predetermined to be failed then it will be, no matter what great areas of the school..)..is something many schools are experiencing...so how could that not have an affect on teaching also and the quality of...?..

...I think though...going back to your daughter and the academic ‘brilliance’ she’s displaying...?...the ‘wrong diagnosis’ as it were, could be just as damaging as no diagnosis at all when one is needed and most definitely applies and there are similarities displayed in children with dispraxia and ‘gifted children’....I would certainly continue your ‘battle’ of communication, relentlessly... I’m not really sure what else to suggest as funding is a huge issue here in England even when it’s obvious to all that a child isn’t being sassy or naughty and that there are very definite reasons for their struggles and frustrations in certain areas of co-ordination, as is the thing it would seem with your experiences....