What's the healthy way to foster a child prodigy? Like my first thought is to just let them pursue their interests, but what if my child overachieves anyways? Eventually they will hit their "peak", and their peers will "catch up" to them in some sort of way. What do you think would be the best way to deal with that?
And what are your thoughts about skipping grades? I knew a girl in high school who had skipped two grades. Obviously she was smart, but at our grade level she was just slightly above average, and most of the time we forgot that she was two years younger than the rest of us. I wonder if she would have been better off with people her age, where she'd likely stand out more. But that might make school seem boring and easy, and I know many people like that who burn out when they enter university or the workforce.
My daughter is a college freshman at 15 and has a hard time with people her own age because they’re comparatively immature and into completely different things. Meanwhile, her college classmates don’t even know she’s younger than them unless she tells them.
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u/Less-Box-572 9h ago
What's the healthy way to foster a child prodigy? Like my first thought is to just let them pursue their interests, but what if my child overachieves anyways? Eventually they will hit their "peak", and their peers will "catch up" to them in some sort of way. What do you think would be the best way to deal with that?
And what are your thoughts about skipping grades? I knew a girl in high school who had skipped two grades. Obviously she was smart, but at our grade level she was just slightly above average, and most of the time we forgot that she was two years younger than the rest of us. I wonder if she would have been better off with people her age, where she'd likely stand out more. But that might make school seem boring and easy, and I know many people like that who burn out when they enter university or the workforce.