<p>I’m glad Mathmom and a few others here have seen the sort of hardwired hunger to learn in their own kids, too. It’s sensitive to describe to others because the whole topic of “IQ” is so charged with emotion and defensiveness and insecurity. </p>
<p>My younger kid is quite smart and is vastly more gracefully socially than her older sibling, the hardwired voracious mind kid. I consider them to have different constellations of abilities. Not one more “gifted” than the other, just different. </p>
<p>I actually wish we’d just move on from the whole concept of IQ. I truly don’t see the purpose.</p>