Can You Make Your Kid Smarter?
My husband and I argue all the time about trying to do things to make our kid smarter. He thinks anything less than an "A" is, well, a disgrace. (Of course, he still remembers the SAT scores of his high school friends -- and we're talking bell bottoms and platform shoes the first time around, here). I, on the other hand, always an average student, don't think grades matter all that much. Hey, you're talking to someone who got 380 on her math SAT -- and I'm not living under a bridge somewhere! Larry's on our son all the time about his homework, and what he learned in school today and is desperate to help Phillip bring his "B" in honors algebra up to an "A" (never mind that it's a high school course and 8th graders are taking it), and for a short time made him take a course of study through Johns Hopkins in math for gifted students. And -- here I'm going to brag -- he has turned out pretty smart. But it had nothing to ...