This is very important. When I was in elementary school, I didn’t get good grades. I needed to improve learning how to read. I was severely dyslexic. I wrote so that you could read a word, holding it to a mirror. I still sometimes type a word backward, such as saw for was and was for the word saw. In second grade, I went to a tutor. Evelyn Andrews was her name. She changed my life. She was a brilliant woman who had graduated from the University of Chicago when women hardly ever went to college. She immediately recognized my issues and taught me how to read by sounding out each word instead of memorizing each word. In the 50s, they didn’t believe in phonics. She gave me confidence, and I became a bookworm. I still only liked studying classes that I found interesting. I was not too fond of school. However, in about 6 grade, I took some tests and an IQ test. They also tested creativity. I was at the top of the scale, and the results showed a high IQ. My mother was called in for a meeting. My mother was thrilled. I think before these tests, my mother was worried. Because of these tests, she stopped worrying about me. Suddenly, it was the teacher’s fault because they didn’t know how to teach someone as smart as I was supposed to be. LOL. The teachers had a different take. They thought I was lazy. Both things were probably true. Why am I writing about this? Just because of those tests, my mother stopped worrying about my grades. She kept thinking I was too creative and intelligent to be graded on anything. High school was better than elementary school, and finally, I learned to love college and ended up with two college degrees and on the Dean’s List! The best thing this did for me? In the back of my mind, if someone criticizes anything about me, I say to myself, well, at least I am creative and have a high IQ. HA Ha Ha Ha, true. It is essential to recognize each child’s unique ability. Every child is brilliant and can add to society in their way. Just nourish their interests. Tell them they were tested and shown to have lots of creativity and a high IQ. Who’s going to know if that is true or not? I am still a terrible speller and have awful handwriting, like most doctors?
See, that is what I mean about having self-confidence.
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