• Parenting,  Teaching

    Intelligence Isn’t Everything

    Intelligence Isn’t Everything     I’m one of those moms who had their kids tested for intelligence at a very young age. I insisted they be placed in gifted programs as young as kindergarten. I made sure they had music lessons, Eric and I coached Arielle’s Odyssey of The Mind team, and I insisted on straight A’s for many years. Why? I knew my kids were capable of the work and I didn’t want them to be slackers in school like Eric and me. Eric is one of the most all-around intelligent people I know yet in school he did next to nothing and was once sent out of class because he was…