smartypants......

ok, so today i had a client, in with her 3 children under the age of 4.......a large woman.........by any cultural standards....and her middle child, just turning 2 on sunday....was a bright spot in my day.....a child who was describing the pictures in a fruit&vegetable coloring book to me in lucid terms....this is an apple....i like apples....apples are red.........wow......and when i mentioned to her mom that this child warranted special attention...lots of reading aloud, etc....the mom retorted.....what, you mean with smartypants?........i was horrified...that a mother of such an ahead-of-the-curve child would downplay the talent rather than rally around it.......i got the impression that the older child, a goodlooking blonde/blue-eyed daughter, and the baby....a boy with coal black&curly hair and blue eyes......were the stars of the household......and the middling child, though quite smart, would never measure up.......i have attempted to commit her name to memory....so when she makes good i can say that i knew her when...........