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Life Story of MRs Ken Maria Mueller sucks
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Yesterday Ken was diagnosed with ADHD, though I think without the hyperactivity part. We brought Ken to a psychologist to test him and see what's really going on and how we can be better parents as far as his education goes. After the tests were complete, I was brought in first to go over the results (Toni had to watch Margo). Excitedly, the psychologist mentioned he had no idea he would be testing a kid of this extreme intelligence today. Even though I had told him Ken was very smart over the phone when initially discussing Ken. Nobody ever seems to believe me when I say my kid is very smart. Then the psychologist remarks how he's worked with 7,000 kids in his career and Ken will be the person who discovers the cure for cancer or has some other significant impact in our world. Of course, it felt good to hear that about my little guy. However, through the testing it was very clear to the psychologist that Ken has ADHD. While Ken had extraordinarily high scores on portions of the IQ test, he had even below average scores in very specific tests that are exact signs of ADHD. And observationally, it was clear as well. This doctor is great, we went through each portion of the tests one by one. First came the verbal subtests from I think the WISC test. Ken got what I was told were extremely high scores like 19 (highest) in vocabulary. I never knew Ken even had an above-average vocabulary, so that seemed strange. And now that I think about it, what does vocabulary have to do with intelligence? Next, we went over the math score. It looked like math was from a different IQ test. For that, the results showed Ken at a 2.4 grade level. That really didn't make sense, Ken's so extraordinary in reading but only a 2.4 grade level in math? Ken's normally the other way around. I asked what happened and the doctor said Ken just didn't want to do anymore math after the beginning. He assumed Ken wasn't able. So I asked to see the work. It was the most basic problems imaginable; simple addition, subtraction, division and fractions. At most each problem would take 4 seconds for Ken to do in his head with his eyes closed. But Ken just stopped right in the beginning. So all the talk about Ken curing cancer was based on his non-math related abilities! Though I think the doctor realized Ken's math abilities from other tests. Aside from (or due to?) ADHD, Ken apparently has an emotional level of about a 3.5 year old (he'll be 6 in less than a couple months). That was more unexpected than ADHD. He's a bit sensitive, maybe more than a bit, but I never thought he was any different from his friends in that respect. Well I'll know more tomorrow when we have a conference call at night with the psychologist. He wanted time to review the results of testing with other doctors and do other research. I'm just anxious to know what to do, how to guide Ken to be as happy and productive an adult as possible.
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I got a lesson in death from Ken a couple weeks ago. Ken was very angry with mommy for yelling at him and putting him in time out for what he considered no good reason. So he tells me to let mommy know that he is so angry that it doesn't matter if he dies. I told Ken never to say something like that. He asks me why not? I remind him that he used to be extremely scared of dying and that's certainly the last thing I want to think about. He asks me if I'm scared of dying and I said of course. Ken then explains that there's nothing to fear, when you die your brain no longer works and so you stop thinking. There's nothing scary then once you die as you can't think so you can't be scared. I'm still clinging to the hope that there's some kind of afterlife or we can figure out how to live long enough to figure out how to live forever. But otherwise I know my son is correct, yet the likely situation of myself and my family no longer existing still scares me beyond words. It was a bit worrisome for me hearing my son's explanation. This was a subject that gave him tremendous fear in the past and he clearly had been thinking about it to come to this rationalization. I felt bad for him when he was scared of dying, now I don't like it so much that he isn't anymore. I know he's a very happy kid, but isn't a little anxiety over death healthy so as to ensure you avoid it?
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Last week, Toni was trying to get Ken to finish his Kumon math packet. She hadn't gone over math with Ken in a long time, but I was sick and our nanny was on vacation. Trying to sleep, I could overhear them. Repeatedly the conversation would go like this. "Ken, now do this next problem. No Ken, that's not how you do this, why did you write that answer?" Ken would respond, "it is how you do it! Look, 17/19 becomes 51/57 and the answer is reduced to 13/92." And finally Toni would say, "oh, ok I see, you're right. I'm sorry." Later, after sufficiently laughing at Toni, she let me know that she felt that day was the day she realized Ken had become smarter than her in math.
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Today Ken came up with another of his math discoveries. Today's was a simple one, what surprised me was how he was able to prove it. Ken walked over to me and said, "daddy I want to show you something that works for all numbers in the world. Whenever you add a number to itself, the answer is always even!" He explained it to me with a couple examples and, of course, it works.
Although this was a relatively basic discovery, Ken is constantly reminding me how well suited his brain is for math and how curious he is. I had to press him a little further on this one though and I figured now would be a good time to introduce him to the idea of proving his theories. So I asked him if his theory is really true, "how do you know your idea works for all numbers? Can you prove it works even for incredibly large numbers? Maybe it works for small numbers, but not the really big ones?" Without hesitation, Ken immediately explained how we can try any number and we just to have to add the last digit to see the answer ends with an even digit.
2 things surprised me with Ken's answer. First, I was absolutely amazed how fast he came up with an answer without ever having been asked to prove something in his life. I expected a, "daddy, I tried 3+3, 4+4, 5+5 and they all worked!" I think I'll ask him tomorrow, if I remember, if he came up with this idea by trying out numbers or more abstractly thought about it in terms of the way he gave his proof. Did he already think about the need to prove this more than just trying out a few numbers? Secondly, I was impressed with the actual proof. Maybe it's not a solid formal proof, it definitely made sense!
These discoveries are almost a daily occurrence now that he's been working on fractions with his Kumon work. Maybe it's the boredom of fractions and Kumon that are motivating him to come up with shortcuts or daydream. Either way, I'm glad he's finally at a stage in Kumon where I feel his mind is being stimulated, at least somewhat. Though Ken still despises Kumon, unfortunately.
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My fraternal grandparents were John and Mary Miller ( changed from Mueller) Does anyone know about them? writer@tampabay.rr.com
