[email protected]

In a message dated 09/30/2001 8:32:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:


> ps - One other thing - tell him IQ tests are meaningless in the real
> world. He should not let a good score make him feel superior in
> intellect because all that test tested was one little type of thought
> process. It can not test how well he knows literature, or if he
> understands the internal combustion engine well enough to fix it, or how
> well he can play the piano, or how good he is at building furniture, or
> whether he understands the concepts that rule our physical universe. My
> dh and I both score really well on IQ tests (usually in the MENSA level).
> And neither of us thinks they are worthwhile.
>
>

Oh, none of us takes IQ tests particularly seriou--EXCEPT in this case, where
it has given Julian and us important information. For Julian, it's objective
information that he really is a smart kid. For us, it's finding out that
Julian, for whatever reason (he doesn't know), believed that he wasn't. Other
than supporting him in incorporating this new information about himself, and
in continuing to help him deal with the other stuff...not a lot has changed.

Kathryn


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Bridget

--- In Unschooling-dotcom@y..., KathrynJB@a... wrote:

> Oh, none of us takes IQ tests particularly seriou--EXCEPT in this
case, where
> it has given Julian and us important information. For Julian, it's
objective
> information that he really is a smart kid. For us, it's finding out
that
> Julian, for whatever reason (he doesn't know), believed that he
wasn't. Other
> than supporting him in incorporating this new information about
himself, and
> in continuing to help him deal with the other stuff...not a lot has
changed.
>
> Kathryn
>

That's great. My comments were more in response to the fact that you
said he was a little scared by the results. I just think he should
understand that it is not that big a deal if he was frightened by it.

Bridget