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Post by Honeysmom on Dec 4, 2003 9:54:38 GMT -5
After reading a few posts about this are your kids better or waaaay better in one subject vs another. Like I am really great at Math, but I cannot comprehend what I read unless it is a fictional book, in a textbook, forget it. Honey is the same way. At four yrs old he is at the 6.5 yr level in math, but his speech and his reading and writing are still at a 2 yr 9 month level. I wonder if everyone excels in certian areas, if it is hereditary, or if it is just coincidence? Just curious  |
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Post by vickilyn32 on Dec 4, 2003 10:49:58 GMT -5
Dan is better at math than reading, but way better at art or building things. He also excells in sports. His reading has improved and now is almost up to grade level. His spelling and writing are the worst. I can hardly read anything he has written.
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Post by Dad2Brooke on Dec 4, 2003 11:41:44 GMT -5
Brooke is very creative and can sit and do arts and crafts for hours, literally. No sign of hyperactivity then. My mother was awesome with all things artsey and craftsey as well, so maybe those genes skipped a generation. She also does great with science and history, and those are some of my favorite subjects. Math she struggles with, as she does with writing and reading. My wife (ADHD) is horrible in those areas. I love to read and write. Math is fun for me as well. Maybe, if I keep working with her, she will find my "genes" for those as well. ;D Cool and interesting post Honeysmom |
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Post by dansmommy on Dec 4, 2003 12:03:17 GMT -5
Yes, we're sort of the opposite here -- ds8 is reading Lord of the Rings, but has barely mastered his addition/subtraction math facts and actually has a diagnosis of a math learning disability. He has a very skewed IQ score with his verbal score much higher than his performance, which can be a huge problem as he gets older, but we're still hoping for the best. I was this way to a large extent too -- reading constantly but struggling to learn my multiplication facts in fifth grade. As far as Honey's pattern -- there's a term "visual-spatial learner" and a good website about it -- here's a link: www.hoagiesgifted.org/visual-spatial.htm Hope you find something interesting there. christie |
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Post by LitlBaa on Dec 4, 2003 21:36:05 GMT -5
Where does Katie fit?  She isn't good at math, hates to read, but is awesome at anything physical...karate, PE, sports, and is good at the clarinet. She really likes science and the "murder shows" where they have the forensic scientists solving the case from one strand of hair and a broken button.
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Post by Dad2Brooke on Dec 4, 2003 22:47:10 GMT -5
She really likes science and the "murder shows" where they have the forensic scientists solving the case from one strand of hair and a broken button. Brooke loves Monster Garage. It a show on the Discovery channel where they take a car and make it into something else, like they made a Mini Cooper into a snowmobile. She loves that show. I myself love the forensic science shows, they are so cool. |
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Post by AnneM on Dec 5, 2003 12:49:04 GMT -5
My 15 year old Sam matches with Dad2Brooke's description of Brooke..... Art, Science and History .... oh YES for Sam too!! Particularly Art and Science! ... (but when it comes to science he LIKES biology best BUT gets higher grades in Physics and Chemistry!!.. GO FIGURE!)
Maths and English .... NOT so great! ....
... and just another comment about Art ... he can sit and draw and "create" for hours ... but in the past 2 years his Art class has got 'more serious' and he is being asked to draw something "Specific" and that really goes against his creativity!! .... If he is asked for example to " Draw that bowl of fruit" - that holds NO interest for him ... but if he is given "free range" then the world is his oyster!!
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Post by vickilyn32 on Dec 5, 2003 13:28:48 GMT -5
Dan also loves monster garage, and while you were out, junk yard wars, anything where they build stuff. He loves crafts as well, and his coach said that he is a very good basketball player. He can play computer games and playstation for hours.
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Post by stew4me on Dec 5, 2003 15:57:29 GMT -5
For someone who is not supposed to be able to sit still Kayley can play games on the computer or sit and play board games with her little brother and sisters for hours. She is 11yo and in the 6th grade.She is reading on a 3.7 grade level is getting help with her reading and spelling. But she is doing algebra(writing formulas,etc) and says it's easy and she understands it completely. I really have a hard time how this ADHD stuff works sometimes. With the forensic stuff. That would be my dream job. If it wasn't for all the blood and guts.  I have a really weak stomach. |
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Post by Honeysmom on Dec 5, 2003 17:29:16 GMT -5
Junk Yard Wars RULES!!!! ;D I also love the forensic stuff and honey is really really into outdoors stuff. He love the fish and he loves to do "work." Anything that could be seen as a job, like cutting weeds with a scissors or I saw him try to "cut" the grass by pulling it out one time, is right up his alley. Unfortunatly I do think he is waaaay to serious about most of this stuff. He really takes offense if we try to have fun sometimes, he does not have time. |
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Post by sierra on Dec 5, 2003 22:50:17 GMT -5
Both my sprouts have strengths and weaknesses. One has some academic strengths that I swear you could knock me over with a feather. That boy is going to be the star of the debate team. He's always looking for the underlying rules that govern anything he comes in contact with. Math is about rules. Science is about rules. Music is about rules. People are about rules. He over-analyzes.
The other one is ok academically but is very musical and artistic. He's also got real comedic timing. At least his doting mother thinks so. I think he's headed somewhere in the performing arts but he could surprise me and wind up doing something with his hands. He'd rather use his mind contemplating philosophy and religion and sociology. He doesn't have patience for math and science unless it's a puzzle or paradox. Rules for the sake of rules don't interest him.
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Post by finnmom on Dec 7, 2003 4:34:18 GMT -5
HI Sami 8y/o also has very varieble result´s from testing the skill-levell. He was above averidge in math, logical thinking, universal thinking(meaning he can figure thing´s out without seeing them written or drawn) The theacher says he has a great "eye for play"( like he know´s emmediately where to pass the ball and so on..). Still, he has poor motoric skill´s, reading has been so hard, getting better now, writing is totally hard motoric-vice. All those thing´s came back as little under averidge. He has so much that he is good with, unfortunately those few areas he is not so good, sometime´s seems to be the most important one´s. This truly is a hard condition to figur out, I´am clad that there is so much positive thing´s in his live too. I, myself, as non-adhd, love to read , Iám not an math-genie ;D, but I like to do my everyday math myself without any machine´s and I´am quit good at it.. So figure it out Marja |
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Post by mskris on Dec 8, 2003 12:33:46 GMT -5
Ann - I'm not surprised your son is finding that art class hinders his creativity. I've always found this to be true. I was VERY artistic and creative as a child, but the more I attended classes (both inside and outside school), the more I found my creativity squelched. My ds is a phenomenal artist - I've resisted putting him into formal art classes outside school because of the fear that his creativity will be "schooled" out of him.
He is also very good at math and science. In my family, we seemed to be split as we grew older: science/math vs. language/arts. One of my siblings was a math major, one a science major, and two of us majored in English. We were above average in all subjects, but seemed to lean one way or the other once we got to the upper grades.
Kris
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Post by TexasMom on Dec 10, 2003 0:10:39 GMT -5
Steven is great in everything but writting and spelling. He likes to read and is in an accelerated math class at school. He can do math faster that I can and my minor in college was math!
Now, if I can just get him to go to bed at night...
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