{"id":1221,"date":"2011-09-28T06:01:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T13:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2011-09-28T06:01:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T13:01:53","slug":"parents-encourage-gifted-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=1221","title":{"rendered":"Parents Encourage Gifted Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[Six-year old Ethan has a busy schedule this year. In addition to landing a coveted spot in the competitive advanced gifted and talented first-grade Achievers program at the new Denver Multi-Language School, where he'll be learning Mandarin Chinese and Hindi, he's also playing three sports: club ice hockey, Little Kickers soccer and karate, where he's earning his yellow belt. To round things out, he's also taking Suzuki music lessons to play piano, violin and guitar.\n\"He's a real little Renaissance man,\" beams his mother. \"We don't push him at all, but just let him try out things that interest him. He's always wanted to learn Mandarin Chinese. And of course Hindi. Several billion people speak those languages, so he feels it's important to be able to speak them too.\"\u2028\u2028<!--more-->\nHis Suzuki music teacher, Jim, agrees. &#8220;When Ethan told me he wanted to learn all the Chopin polonaises on the piano and violin, I was a little surprised. Even I don&#8217;t know those. He&#8217;s really got me doing my homework.&#8221;\nIn between school, sports, music and art classes, Ethan spends a few hours a week with his personal trainers at the Brain Training Center, learning advanced chess strategies.\n&#8220;Lots of people hire trainers for personal fitness, why not hire a brain trainer to increase your IQ?&#8221; says Ethan&#8217;s mother, who has had to quit her job so that she can chauffeur him to all his various lessons and school activities. &#8220;We&#8217;re just lucky to have such a smart, talented boy.&#8221;]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-issue14","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}