DS can do all the usual tricks with letters and numbers, and has fabulous speech yada yada yada. He's 2.5 and I of course think he's wonderful and marvellous and am very excited by all the lovely things he can do, but I know that it doesn't necessarily mean he's a young genius in the making.
However, it feels like everyone else is trying to label him just that. People always praise his speech and proceed to predict his IQ and it gets excessive after a while. Maybe everyone gets this, I don't know?
I worry that if it continues, it will put too much weight of expectation on DS. And it's getting a bit frustrating for me too. Last week I met with some postnatal group friends and they were chatting about potty training. They cut me out of the conversation because they assumed DS would have done it easily ages ago (he hasn't). Once someone sharing a proud mummy moment even prefaced it with "I know this is nothing compared to DS, but..." which made me feel awful. And now I feel like I can never do my own proud mummy sharing for fear it seems like boasting.
What can I do? Do I need to do anything, or will it go away of its own accord?
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mrsgboring · 26/03/2008 21:18
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