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We all know our children are geniuses, but it is time to separate the wheat from the chaff. Who are real geniuses and who knows what chaff is?
Here are twenty tried and true ways to know your children are truly gifted:
- They do anything you did as kid — only better.
- They don’t get good grades in school, but they’re really good with the cats.
- They know what the fox says.
- Once when NPR went from news to classical music, they said: “Leave it on, mom.”
- They won’t sleep… because they’re thinking so much.
- Friends roll their eyes when you offhandedly mention their 18 major accomplishments of the past week.
- They’ve never lost a staring contest.
- Your mom said they are.
- They’ve only ever eaten organic, free-range, vegan, gluten-free food except when they exclusively breastfed for 12 months.
- They watched the Olympics and immediately tried to ski down the stairs shooting things.
- They’ve seen all the Star Wars movies, and they only liked episodes IV-VI.
- They cry 15 times a day because of their sensitive artistic nature.
- They hang upside down on the monkey bars a lot.
- Their first sentence was “I’m so smart.”
- They eat crayons to make their poop more artsy.
- They’re very popular on Instagram.
- All their school projects look like you did them, but really they did them with a lot of your while-they-were-sleeping guidance.
- They always talk back to you because they are so precocious.
- They never talk back to you because they are so precocious.
- Any teacher, coach or instructor has ever complimented their skills.
Mine are gifted in math, movies, and emotional intelligence. Good luck with yours (not really because there are only so many spots in the gifted program)!
PS. Chaff refers to the shell around the wheat seeds or most grains once it’s been discarded. If you’ve ever shucked a corn, feel free to point the husks out as chaff to throw away when not smart enough, I mean, not edible enough.
