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welcome to the program. Hi

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Dr. Laura, thanks for taking my call. You're

0:49

very welcome. What's happening? I

0:52

just wanted to talk to you about my son.

0:54

He's actually here with me, but he said he

0:56

doesn't want to talk. He's seven.

0:58

He ate on Monday. And

1:02

just wanted to know how to

1:04

handle frustrations because of a couple

1:06

things that happened. The other day they had

1:08

an awards assembly. I wasn't able to make

1:11

it because I have a few small children

1:13

at home. He brought home

1:15

an award. It said A

1:17

slash B award. And he's gotten

1:19

awards before. And

1:21

when he came home, he ripped the award because

1:23

he said he didn't want, he

1:25

got a B. Is that right, George? Is that what happened? He

1:28

got one B. And then today,

1:30

oh, in the school year. And

1:34

then today he brought home a report card,

1:36

like a progress report card because it's almost

1:38

end of the school year. And he's

1:40

in second grade. And what

1:42

did it say, George? His

1:49

grade level is 4.5. And

1:52

reading is what? At

1:54

reading. What else? Anyway

2:01

that the other numbers were pretty high to

2:03

and she ripped it a couple of times

2:05

I wasn't there, my husband was there and

2:07

he called me and I said well. I'm.

2:11

Oh and then what happened was. We.

2:14

Asked him why and. He

2:16

said it's because all the other kids or

2:18

most a lot of the other kids in

2:20

class or it's sixth grade level. And

2:23

almost six. Level. Not

2:26

all of them, so he's right in the middle. We figured

2:28

out that some of them are higher. Among

2:30

them are lower but they were all asking him

2:32

and he said he didn't want to answer any

2:35

questions. About it and.

2:37

With. All right, he's nodding his head. You

2:40

wanna see something? No. No.

2:42

Okay. So. We're just

2:44

wondering how to handle the. Arm.

2:48

Okay, Could you put the phone? Mirrors face

2:50

so I could talk to. Occur.

2:54

Here. He is. It was was his

2:56

first name please. George.

3:00

Okay, George reset it or good

3:02

George. I. I

3:05

I I have a question for you.

3:08

What Is it? Here's. My

3:10

question. Do. You think

3:13

your mommy and daddy. Are

3:15

gonna love you. More. If.

3:17

You get always. Love. You more

3:19

than they do now. Have

3:24

you ever thought your magic some of the

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If you got mostly bees in a few a's

5:00

with they love you less. Know.

5:06

You. Sure, He

5:08

has. And ten. Do.

5:12

You think parents feel. Happier.

5:15

With a kid who. Gets. Angry

5:17

and slashes up papers. Where do you think

5:19

they get less happy with that? They

5:24

do all that was happy

5:26

and okay. So.

5:29

My guess is. You're

5:32

very smart kid, above average. And

5:35

it's not unusual for very smart kids

5:38

to have very little patience with them

5:40

since. But

5:43

in order to accomplish great things with

5:45

how smart you are. You

5:47

going to have to learn to be

5:49

patient with yourself? Or. You

5:52

will never. Created. Kinds

5:54

of things you're destined to create.

5:56

Because. you were blessed with this

5:59

intelligence You understand what I

6:01

just said to you? Yes.

6:05

So when you get a paper that you

6:07

really wish it had all higher letters and

6:09

numbers, what you've got

6:11

to do is figure out a way to breathe,

6:15

talk to yourself, do something, do

6:17

jumping jacks, run around outside, do

6:19

cartwheels, whatever it is, do the

6:21

ah multiplication

6:26

tables in your head because

6:28

you need to be more patient with you. Now

6:36

I want to make sure you understand that because

6:39

you have this gift of very

6:41

high intelligence and high ability academically,

6:43

that means do you know what

6:45

I mean when I say you're destined for something

6:47

important? Yes.

6:51

Okay, what does that mean? What

6:53

am I trying to say? You're

6:56

trying to say that if I

6:58

get like a score

7:01

a bit more than other classmates

7:03

then I'll just have to calm

7:05

down. Why? Well

7:13

don't get upset and

7:17

like say things, I

7:19

think so for people. You

7:26

see there are a lot of smart people in the

7:28

world and not all of them do anything wonderful with

7:30

their smarts. So

7:32

if you just look at the class and say, oh

7:34

they got better grade, oh they got a better grade,

7:36

oh I didn't get it. That doesn't

7:39

mean they're going to do something important

7:41

because a lot of people waste their

7:43

smarts and I

7:45

worry that you're a little bit hurting

7:47

your smarts by

7:50

being so mean

7:52

to yourself because tearing up that is

7:54

mean to you and

7:58

if you're mean to you then how

8:00

are you going to let your fabulous

8:02

mind think of the great things

8:04

it has in front of it to do? It's

8:12

like trying to ride your bike up a street

8:15

and you keep putting sand in front of you, so

8:17

you keep slipping back. Yeah,

8:21

you got good legs and a good bicycle and a

8:23

good heart and lungs and you should be able to

8:25

get up that hill but not if you keep putting

8:27

sand on it and that is what you're doing to

8:29

yourself with your grades. So

8:37

what do you think about what I'm saying? Do I just sound nutty?

8:41

Well... What

8:45

do you think, George? What do you think about

8:47

what you're saying? Because

8:50

you say like, I'm being good.

8:55

You want to say something? I'm

9:04

very appreciative that you talked to

9:06

me, George, and gave me a chance to

9:08

snag you. But really,

9:10

when I meet very smart kids, I

9:14

know that the only way they're going

9:16

to do great things in life with

9:18

their smarts is if

9:20

they're kinder to themselves. About

9:25

not being perfect all the time. Okay,

9:35

hi. Mom, I'm glad you're

9:37

listening to all of this. You guys

9:39

can talk about it with dad tonight and even the

9:41

other kids because I think it's important

9:45

for people to understand that the wonderful things that

9:47

they have an ability to do in this life

9:52

may never happen because they're too hard on themselves. Yeah,

9:56

so true. So

10:00

where are the torn up things? Did you

10:02

just come home with something torn? No,

10:06

he did it at home. They're

10:08

actually in the car. I put it in the

10:10

car. Do we have the

10:12

pieces? Yeah,

10:14

I can go with such a note now.

10:16

Okay. George, I want you to go get

10:18

the pieces and scotch tape them. Okay.

10:22

Do you know where the tape is? Let's

10:24

go tape them back together. We have the

10:26

award already taped, but the report

10:28

card isn't. We're going to go do it right

10:30

now. Okay. We're going to tape it back together

10:33

because it's only one step

10:36

going up that hill. Yeah.

10:39

And don't be mean to yourself about each

10:41

step. That's not nice to you. All

10:44

right, guys. I appreciate your call. High

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number 1-800-375-2872. Very

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typical of very smart kids. Please

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