To be honest, and this is coming from a straight A student, in many ways, YES sheltering a kid and forcing extra studying to make them get better grades can hurt a lot in the end.
Why? It stops them from learning the harsh realities of how the world works and instead just tells them "how it should work"...and this leaves them somewhat clueless about reality and open to turn to bad people for the "good" advice their parents "hid from them".
I spend from about 18-23 trying to figure out how to seem natural at showing an "un-sheltered" personality...and realized just how little respect has to do with simply being smart and affording to live on your own.
First of all the workplace value people who stick up for themselves (even very book-smart ones often end up doing menial scientific tasks simply b/c, often, they are the only ones who will take crap...while the socialites often move up to managements)...so even on a blatant material basis their lives are less exciting.
Secondly, reality is people lie, cheat, and rely on stereotypes a lot. What this means is, say a "smart kid" learns everything there is to know about sexual positions via psychology/sexuality books, then goes to a bar to "entice a woman with his knowledge". Chances are, not matter how good his "potential" as a lover is, some one with more guts than him is going to beat the crap out of him and/or the woman will call him a creepy stalker and stick cops on him...and meanwhile the guy who kicks him down will have sex with the woman that same night (even though the "smart guy" was both honest about his intentions & didn't use threats while the other guy was dishonest and may well have used threats).
"Bright children" are often told people always succeed when they "do the right thing" and/or "know a lot about what they are attempting to do".
In reality, though, often neither of these hold and it is important for parents to actually help kids understand that there are those "rare" case where one should lash back, not to hurt someone but to send a social message "I respect myself and I have something to offer here...if you don't like that, tough".
If parents don't show kids reality someone like, say, a drug dealer who will tell them some truths about harsh reality might...in which case the kid may think "so I recognize these things are true, my parents are liars, and therefore drug might also be good but my parents probably just lied they were bad". We need to teach our kids life is far from by the book...and for anything in "book smarts" to be useful it must be applied to a realistic social perspective...
2007-11-21 01:30:19
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answered by M S 5
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Will a bright child be a dull student/person is the correct way to ask this ......& the child may indeed find being a student/person dull.
2007-11-21 01:17:35
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answered by rainbowmatrixs 4
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This question is impossible to answer. No one can predict what kind of adult will come from a child. Quite children can become loud, bright children can stay the same or become dull, and dull children can become bright. It is impossible to tell 100%.
2007-11-21 01:44:09
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answered by Anonymous
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Could you please restate the question?
If you are asking if a bright child can become a dull student/person then the answer is yes but they can become an exciting one also.
The same also for a not bright child.
2007-11-21 01:49:28
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answered by Nouri K 3
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1st- will a bright be a dull student? or how do you tell if a bright child will be a dull student/ person?
2nd- if the poor thing has your grammer skills then he/she might be a dull student(no offense)
3rd-thumb me up if i helped this woman
2007-11-21 01:18:41
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answered by Anonymous
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It depends on the individual and the environment in which the individual lives. (home life, friends, family, city, region, experiences, etc.)
I think some people choose to be dull by the choices they make in life. If you don't step outside your comfort zone then you will be dull. If you do step outside your comfort zone then you will not be dull.
2007-11-21 01:23:24
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answered by Unsub29 7
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Sometimes this happens. In some cases it seems that school kills a happy spirit and makes the person dull as mud.
2007-11-21 01:17:05
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answered by Ace Librarian 7
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Are bright children nerds? Yes..sometimes. Sociability is often lacking in those dedicated to learning. You can help by showing that parties and people are good....that self is not all that matters. Empathy and decisions are wise if all information is taken in but tempered with kindness.
2007-11-21 01:22:03
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answered by Scully 4
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on no account! maximum sensible human beings have been hideously rambunctious little ones with out interest span, people who could make their mum and dad (and the dinner company) snicker out loud and flinch in an identical span of 5 seconds. little ones who're sensible are complicated to entertain and much greater stable to rein in. they have a tendency to have minds of their very own very youthful, %. up on issues extremely at the instant, and pass forward of their friends seeming too sensible to act their age. Their mum and dad are regularly waiting to tear their hair out via the time they are in college...and it basically gets worse of their teenager years. There are merely some little ones who're particularly boring. And maximum of them are easily shy and quiet little ones, they have a tendency to be people who combination into the historical past the main, no rely what their intelligence point.
2016-11-12 07:24:31
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answered by Anonymous
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My son has always been smart from birth....he has a full scholarship to Texas AM...he is the life of the party ,every ones Friend,ladies man and maintains a 4.0.......He is the total package......As all mothers we think are kids are the best and we should nurture and encourage them to be the best at what they want to be.......
2007-11-21 01:19:09
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answered by MJ 6
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