Genius Update

This week was full of parent-teacher conferences in our school district. Lucky for me, my school doesn't do the "traditional" conference for the 1st half--our school counselor takes care of it. Jesse, Dax, Tel, and I went to Dax's meeting and there were NO surprises there. The child is still on a 6th grade reading level (damn it, I really thought with reading over the summer he would have increased to at least 7th grade) and ACED all of the 2nd grade end of level exams. He is in his teacher's "challenge group" for both math and spelling and is doing well. When Dax's teacher sent home short grade printouts about a month ago there was a comment on it regarding Dax and "visiting" at inappropriate times; we addressed that. Mr G said that it wasn't just Dax, nor was it just one other kid--it was all of them. He then took a pause, looked directly at Dax and said in a very serious tone "I don't want you to get a big head with what I'm about to say but I need to explain the situation to your parents". The tone made me nervous as to what was coming next. Mr G said that he would consider Dax to be the most popular kid in class and everyone wants to work with him, talk to him, just connect with him at all times available--including work time. This, more than all of his over achievements, makes me soooooo happy. When Dax was really young I was told on more than one occasion that due to his intelligence he would lack in social skills and may never be able to "connect" to kids his age. I already knew he has friends but most popular????? The child is perfect. He not only is congenial and brilliant, he is beautiful to boot. I am so proud of you Waxy.
Tel felt left out at homework time so we decided to create homework for him. He, at 3 years old, is practicing writing letters. Why not? He is learning how to identify them and how to make their sound, the next logical step is writing them. Telly you, too, are brilliant!

How is it possible to be so blessed?