Unrealistic expectations and the 4+ assessment prep process

As we are working with more and more clients, we are experiencing quite a few unrealistic expectations from certain parents.

Perhaps because most of our clients don’t have anything to compare their child’s process to.

Perhaps because they enter this process thinking that their child will ‘just get it!’. That their child is a natural born genius. Well, I don’t believe in that. I don’t believe that any child is born a ‘natural born genius’.

I fully believe that we are all born into this world with the same natural abilities. We all learn how to walk. We all learn how to talk. We all learn how to communicate. Everything else beyond this will come down to our upbringing.

How we are brought up.

When I was in secondary school in particular, I would see my friends be labelled as ‘gifted and talented’ and I would think to myself that they were just born that way. They were born with a gift. I now know that this isn’t the case at all. 

They were actually nurtured, taught and challenged by their parents (or whoever was raising them!) and that is how they were able to develop their gifts and their talents. 

I see this every single day with the children that we teach and support here at CMT. They develop these ‘gifts’ and they develop these ‘talents’. But these are not quick wins. These are not instant results. These are months and months and years and years of my clients, my teachers and myself supporting their children.

Of my clients, my teachers and mylsef dedicating countless hours on their children’s education and learning.

Of my clients investing in the best possible tuition for their children.

Of my clients investing in high quality extra curricular activities for their children that will support them to be gifted and talented in whatever areas of their lives that they choose to be gifted and talented in. 

So please do not embark on this 4+ assessment prep process with unrealistic expectations.

Expect it to be hard.

Expect is to be beautiful.

Expect it to be challenging.

Expect it to be empowering.

Expect it to be emotional.

Expect it to be filled with joy.

The full 50/50 spectrum of emotions will come up for all of us involved in this process.

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