Spatial Test Neurosis
My daughter was invited to take the tests for the talent search for the Johns Hopkins Center for TalentedYouth. Yay – yikes! Holy projection of stress onto my child! So, there is the Spatial Test Battery , and then another standardized test for ye old above grade level achievement whoza whatsa. It's the STB that's getting me all worked up. Emile and Lucy and I constructed our own block manipulation problems with Legos Wouldn't I have loved to take that test as a kid? Really. I would have. And, because parenthood is a constant losing crisis of not keeping my own feelings out of it, how can I make sure my daughter does well? The spiral goes like this: we don't allow video games in our house because it always and inevitably leads to melt down hell in our children, which means she's undertrained by a decade of playing Minecraft, as all her peers will have under their belts, so we must prep, which requires much research on Mama