Challenges of Raising Extremely Bright Children

Living with a profoundly gifted child or two can be exhausting, to say the least. Their intelligence bounces off the walls, sometimes even onto the walls.

You might be living with one of these children if:

1. Your child at a very young age discovers that she knows more than you. Why should she pay attention to the directions you are giving?
   
   
2. You walk into the living room only to find the DVD player dissected all over the floor; he had to know how it works.
   
   
3. Your child is bored, bored, bored at school. His teacher tells you he is acting up in class, and won't finish the busywork he is assigned.
   
   
4. In an effort to fit in, your child underachieves. She is tired of standing out.
   
   
5. Your bathroom has become a laboratory. All the contents of your spice cupboard and locked cleaning closet clutter the counter and floor. Your child needs to experiment.
   
   
6. You worry that your child might become a mastermind criminal.
   
   
7. You search high and low to try to find a toy that both fits your toddler's age and his intelligence. You have finally found the one: the pieces are big enough that they wont be swallowed, it can be manipulated by smalls hands, and has a deeper learning value. You come home hopeful that this will hold his attention. He spends all day playing with it, figuring it out, then never touches it again.

8. The children at the playground respond with blank stares as your six year old shares that he knows the cube root of 216. You long for him to have friends and to be understood.
   
   
9. You are constantly advocating for your child. Society wants to keep shoving your square peg child into a round hole.
   
   
10. There is not a school within a two hour drive that is willing and able to teach your child as fast as she can learn, or at least fast enough to keep her from being extremely bored, and disruptive.
    
    
11. You stopped spelling out words to your spouse long ago when your two year old decoded everything you were trying to say over him.

11. You are exhausted from the comments of well meaning people telling you how to raise your child. “If you just...” and “You need to...” are comments that you get too often.
    
    
12. You don't know what to say when asked, “How did you teach them that?”, when you don't even know how they know “that”. How is it that a two year old sits down and plays Beethoven by ear?
    
    
13. Your child got upset about electroweak unification only happening at high energies. Nobody knows what advice to give you about that, or even what you are talking about. Your child is not the only one who gets blank stares.
    
    
14. Your child acts his age. Though he can compete with med students at twelve, he still has the maturity level of a twelve year old. People expect him to act older.
    
    
15. Your child, along with many profoundly gifted, is on the autistic spectrum, adding all the challenges that accompany autism.
    
    
16. You can't remember the last time you went on a date with your spouse, unaccompanied by your children.
    
    
17. All of your energy is consumed by trying to keep up with the intensity.

If you are one of these parents, or know these parents, you are not alone! There is hope! This hope is called Ore Academy.

At Ore Academy we understand the challenges that parents and siblings of profoundly gifted children face and offer workshops and special activities for family members.

Join us this summer at Ore Academy Family Summer Camp. This camp is set up to nurture individual genius, and meet the needs of each child, and their family, in a customized way. Finally there is a place where your whole family fits! Discover new friends who share your challenges.

Ore Academy Family Summer Camp is a place of learning, joy, childhood, family, friendship, and support. At Ore Academy genius shines!

Visit www.OreAcademy.org to get connected and learn more.