Please accept my apologies for the dry, intellectualness of this issue of MonTAGe and the last two as well. This issue is for those of you who are dealing with the issue of whether or not to request acceleration for your child or who are preparing portfolios and background material for meetings with teachers and school staff regarding your child's academic placement. Hopefully, in the future, MonTAGe will have more humor and less pedagogery. But, for now, I've dispensed with the humor, satire, and sarcasm for fear of being misunderstood. Teachers expect certain behaviors and characteristics of children at certain ages.
Parents have their own expectations as do physicians and others who interact with children.
Some parents of intellectually gifted children are fortunate to have professionals to whom they can turn for help and advice. Other parents find themselves seeking the answers to these questions on their own. My own quest for understanding began rather late. For a number of years we, my husband and I, went merrily along our way, ignorant, blissful, unknowing. But, to us, different was good.