GIFTED CHILDREN

When i was at school, in every class there were a couple of really smart kids, a couple of dummies and a whole bunch of fairly average kids in between. Today, if you believe what parents tell you, then every single class must be made up of 100% amazingly gifted children.  I am yet to meet one parent who says "yeah my kid does okay at school, he's no genius but he gets by." Quite the opposite, these days, everyone has incredibly bright progeny, frighteningly bright according to some. Frighteningly. 

I miss the average kids. The kids who could spell a lot of words but still got the hard ones wrong, who sometimes forgot the "i before e" rule. The kids who got 60-70% on tests and were pleased to have passed. The kids who sat there mostly unnoticed during class. These children may not have been "gifted" but they also weren't allergic to nuts...or dairy...and curiously, they usually had a lot more friends than the gifted kiddies too. Average kids ate cakes or biscuits for playlunch, real cakes and biscuits not specially made "gluten free" cakes that taste like wet sand...Or "healthy lollies" made from DATES (mmmm) and dried apricots...ooooh num num. If I was a child today, I would beg my parents to let me be average.

DO CELIACS EXIST

Celiacs...they claim to be allergic to wheat. They say it's a disease. But what are the symptoms? Do they break out in a rash? Do they go into anaphylactic shock? No, what happens is they tend to "feel really quite bloated" after eating...As do I when I eat too much, however I call that "being a bit of a pig" and as far as I know that's not really a disease. So, celiacs? I say there's no such thing. The correct term for someone who claims to be wheat intolerant is: "irritating attention seeker." Especially if they're at your house for dinner.