~whatwasithinking!~ wrote: Hi ladies (and gents if you're about too) A few weeks ago my daughters teacher asked me if it was ok to have my DD tested to see if she is on the gifted spectrum. Can anyone tell me what will happen? Will I be allowed to be there? Will I have to take her or will someone come to the school or will the teacher do the test?? Lol sorry I just hate the unknown as does DD and it would be easier if I could explain to her what will happen. TIA smile I was asked to get my DD tested but I asked what would she actually gain from being tested, and apart from support forums for parents of gifted children there wasn't much else. I decided against it

Chiliwoman wrote: there is a kid version & an adult version of the book. I think that it is ok - but, only you would know - especially seen as you are currently reading it smile They are just different covers, the actual content of the book is exactly the same (book 1 actually has three covers avaliable, the children's cover, the adults cover and the movie Tie in cover) The hunger games are actually a children's fiction book. Yes there is some violence but in my opinion it's not overly gruesome. I work in a book store and the book is recommended for ages 12&up and I do know of at least one local Hugh school who has their year 8 English class reading it as their English assignment.

I wont be back online tonight but will check replies tomorrow night or Wednesday night but thank you to all for reading that novel and for any advice about how to tackle the situation before she becomes her own worse enemy

Hi it's been a while but I was after some non biased advice please. My DD is five and started reception (first year of schooling in SA) this year. At the end of term 1 we had her end of term parent teacher interview and was told she is extremely advanced and is top of her class in reading ability plus the only student doing basic addition and subtraction and learning her 1 and 2 times tables and it was suggested we get her tested for the gifted child's test......so basically she's doing well and isn't struggling (I didn't get her tested, half because I'm not sure what difference doing that test will make and secondly due to her perfection problem) Soooo anyway, what I want advice on is she is a severe perfectionist. She can't make a mistake and if she does she'll rip it up and start again, even if it's something as minor as coloring in out the lines. She has always been like this and by age 3 could spell her full name without copying or any help because she done it so much and k...

tomoro is the day that i joined huggies 1 year ago when did you join huggies?

Septermber 2006. I was overdue for my first DD and googled "natural ways to induce labour for full term baby" and stumbled across the forum!

It dont get stressed about it, I dont really care, I like hot lunches so cant blame them but I do disagree with refusing to give it to you for a min. thats a bit rude and there are signs there stating its for mothers use only. but if it doesnt affect your needs at the time who cares? there are worse things in life. 28 people, 22 of them children died in a bus crash today in Belgium! i agree 100% with you here. if i was to use a feeding room micowave (i dont have to cos my work now has a microwave ) and someone came in to use it, i would straight away take my stuff out and let them use it first,it owuldnt matter if i had 10 minutes left or 10 seconds left, in my opinion, kids & babies should always go first...........even at parties i host all the kids eat before any of the adults. When on lunch break at work and whilst still in uniform, regardless if you are in your actual store or not, you should always extend that customer service and act as if you are speaking with customers ...

It dont get stressed about it, I dont really care, I like hot lunches so cant blame them but I do disagree with refusing to give it to you for a min. thats a bit rude and there are signs there stating its for mothers use only. but if it doesnt affect your needs at the time who cares? there are worse things in life. 28 people, 22 of them children died in a bus crash today in Belgium! i agree 100% with you here. if i was to use a feeding room micowave (i dont have to cos my work now has a microwave ) and someone came in to use it, i would straight away take my stuff out and let them use it first,it owuldnt matter if i had 10 minutes left or 10 seconds left, in my opinion, kids & babies should always go first...........even at parties i host all the kids eat before any of the adults. When on lunch break at work and whilst still in uniform, regardless if you are in your actual store or not, you should always extend that customer service and act as if you are speaking with customers ...

To heat their lunches. Anyone else experienced this? I remember when dd was little everytime I went In our local westfields there was always a staffs dinner cooking in the microwave when we tried to heat up her bottle. Twice in a week I have gone in to heat a friends bottle for her little one and a westfields staff member each time was using the microwave. I asked the girl today if she could please take her lunch out that still had 6 mins to go so I could use for 30 seconds!! She cracked the s@?ts and said I'm on my break, I replied the microwaves are for babies food and bottles not to heat your lasagne possibly cross contaminating babies food. It just gets me so mad but maybe they should have a microwave somewhere for the centre staff to use maybe in centre management or something Vent over! but it isnt just for baby bottles..........its for anyone at the shopping centre

not at my shopping centre! i was gonna say its a good idea cos many times i would of loved to take leftovers to work for lunch but my work had no microwave, but then i thought about it and yuck......heating lunch in the toilet...yuck!