CTYers beware

[asterroc]

When you push your kids too hard, things like this can happen. I wonder why the defense didn't file a counter-claim of emotional and psychological abuse against the surving parent.

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[rubicat.livejournal.com]

My God. You know, I've known a couple of gifted children, and they were pushed to the edge by well-meaning but overbearing parents. One of them ended up an alchoholic; the other just left.

Prodigies don't have normal social skills. They can be sheltered in some way or another, and don't have usual coping skills. So of COURSE they can act without knowing consequences! I really hope she gets tried as a juvenile.

And yeah, the counter-claim. For the love of Larry.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I've known a couple of gifted children, and they were pushed to the edge by well-meaning but overbearing parents.

I went to a HS for gifted kids, I'm forced to admit. A couple of us did have parents like this, but not all. I've taught a few times at a geek summer camp (CTY) though, and lots of the students I saw there weren't particularly lots of the parents I saw there didn't have particularly gifted kids, they just pushed them until the breaking point.