Re:Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acce...
by serpix on Saturday April 18, 2020 @02:30AM
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As a parent of a seven year old who continuously upholds and measures fairness it is really tiring to explain why dad gets to have a larger glass of milk, or why dad has a larger portion of dessert. Fairness is skewed by the one judging what is fair. It is relative and trying to explain relative concepts to a child with no ability to understand relative terms is frustrating. Hence he gets absolute rules and does not understand why.
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Re:Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acce...
by yardie on Saturday April 18, 2020 @08:36AM
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This doesn’t sound fair, to me, to the 7 year old. Just adults doing adulting by saying “do as I say.” The questions asked seem quite reasonable. There are bigger discussions on fairness we haven’t even begun to broach, racism and classism being a big one for me.
Re:Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acce...
by jriot on Monday April 20, 2020 @11:06AM
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The size of milk is easily explainable. I, a 230 lbs powerlifter am roughly five times larger than you at 50 lbs. My body requires more calories, nutrients than yours does. They can easily see that I am much larger than them, so it makes sense to them. As well as being factual.
I say this because my kids used to ask this often.