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You Know You're The Parent of a Gifted Child When...

The March 22 parent forum will be held at East High School, 7-9 pm in the auditorium and media center. It will focus on summer program options for students.

...Your 14-year-old gets her high school year book, and shows it to you, commenting "You know you're a nerd when one of your friends signs your yearbook in 4 languages!"

...At lunch at a semi-fast-food restaurant, your 16-year-old comments that the new cornbread isn't as good as the old cornbread. You point out that it seems to be the same recipe, just a different shape. That's the problem, she points out - it's got more surface area but less volume than it used to. And she proceeds to set the volumes equal, and calculate the surface area of the old brick-shaped cornbread vs. the surface area of the new semi-spherical cornbread... Isn't this how all young teens spend their lunch hours??

...People stop you in the street to compliment your child's published writing, but his teacher complains because he uses big words and doesn't write five-paragraph essays like the other kids.

...Your child has trouble falling asleep? Because he was trying to do a math problem in his head and was having a bit of trouble turning a base 8 fraction into a base 8 decimal (or is that an octimal?) in his head when he was exhausted!

...Your 17-year-old complains that he's read everything in the library, and he may be right!

...Your teenage daughter prefers subscriptions to Discover and Omni instead of Seventeen.