I mean the kids who are either too stupid to live in the wild of real life or so stupid that you look at them and think, "Did you get labeled as gifted in kinder just because you drew an interesting picture?" There are plenty who do well on IQ type tests but still can't read and comprehend a paragraph of text. I dunno how, but it's true.

And I think that all of these kids are now going to my university and signing up for costume lab.

I think a lot depends on how a person gets socialized - I went to college with some truly smart people who weren't safe out without a keeper. And I think "success" - however you define it - depends largely on how you use what you have.

Toddson = Very Smart.

Totally agree with the whole post.

When I left the workmen at my place this morning, they were getting ready to do something with tar. Anybody know what? They are working on a bathroom.

Probably putting in the shower pan--the floor of the shower that is tiled over needs to have a specific slope as well as being waterproof. They usually cut it from sheet metal and stick the seams together.

Well, okay, I just tended to slack HARD instead of doing my work. And yet I tested highest of all the gifted kids in my gifted class.

This was me. (Except the part about gifted class. We didn't have that.) I tested through the roof but I was a super slacker. I used to joke that my epitaph would read, "Kristen is very bright but does not apply herself."

Yes, I was morbid even as a small child.

"Did you get labeled as gifted in kinder just because you drew an interesting picture?" There are plenty who do well on IQ type tests but still can't read and comprehend a paragraph of text. I dunno how, but it's true.

Wild. Labelled and coddled, maybe? Or possibly another intersection of gifted and learning disabled?

Thanks, Robin. GF said the same thing. Whee for shower tile!!!

I'm trying to remember if I ever had to take an IQ test. I remember all sorts of standardized tests but I don't remember an actual IQ test.

The news seems to be saying that in Iowa Obama is gaining on Hillary and Huckabee is threatening to overtake Romney and maybe move to being a first tier candidate. I need to find out more about Obama. I found out a bit more about Huckabee and a lot of his ideas make me wonder "How would that actually work?" and I worry about blurring of church and state.

"Kristen is very bright but does not apply herself."

ahhh ha ha

I'm totally tagging that shit.

Also, please please please let us out early so I can get home, do a load of laundry, make mashed taters and my sooper seekrit fabulous place settings, and get to Kat's to schnuggle Noah.