>> <3 I hope to see more of the Numerator and her families. <<
Next theme is "families of choice" on Nov. 8 so feel free to request more.
>> Though so far I like Dr. Fleer a lot better than anyone else in her life. <<
Dr. Fleer is a much-needed mentor/second mother. But Olivia's parents are good people too. They just don't understand how to raise a child whose logical-mathematical and mechanical intelligences are already far beyond most adults, while social development and most of the rest are closer to her chronological age. It's the same problem as a gifted child raised by average parents, only the gap is wider and the problems worse. This is typical of ordinary parents trying to raise superkids: no matter how much you love each other, it's pretty common to have special needs that simply can't be met on an ordinary level.
Groundhog is another example. He and his parents are very close. As a toddler, his Flight manifested and almost killed him, so his parents kept him indoors to keep him alive. That worked, but it left him with awful agoraphobia and acrophobia. He's worked through most of that, but it's still an issue sometimes.
Compare this with Aurora, a generation later -- and the daughter of two soups. Jackie Frost and Fireheart came up with the idea of harnessing her to things so she couldn't fly away. This has its own drawbacks, but it's mostly working, and they figured that out because they're already used to thinking about superpowers and how to solve related challenges -- even though Aurora has a slightly different power set than either of her parents.
So SPOON has developed some resources for parents of superkids, and Soup to Nuts focuses on helping people cope with superpowers. They make considerable use of the foster system to provide emergency care until a child learns control (which Hannah has mentioned doing before), to take over for parents who don't want to keep raising superkids (like Danso's family being in a permanent placement), and to expand family ties for superkids who have a good family but need more support (like the Numerator). Fortunately T-America has much saner family services, so the collateral damage tends to stay minor. You can't take kids out of their home without doing damage, but if you know what you're doing then it's possible to keep that to a minimum instead of life-wrecking levels. What Dr. Fleer does in this poem is a good example of that.
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Date: 2016-11-02 06:54 pm (UTC)Next theme is "families of choice" on Nov. 8 so feel free to request more.
>> Though so far I like Dr. Fleer a lot better than anyone else in her life. <<
Dr. Fleer is a much-needed mentor/second mother. But Olivia's parents are good people too. They just don't understand how to raise a child whose logical-mathematical and mechanical intelligences are already far beyond most adults, while social development and most of the rest are closer to her chronological age. It's the same problem as a gifted child raised by average parents, only the gap is wider and the problems worse. This is typical of ordinary parents trying to raise superkids: no matter how much you love each other, it's pretty common to have special needs that simply can't be met on an ordinary level.
Groundhog is another example. He and his parents are very close. As a toddler, his Flight manifested and almost killed him, so his parents kept him indoors to keep him alive. That worked, but it left him with awful agoraphobia and acrophobia. He's worked through most of that, but it's still an issue sometimes.
Compare this with Aurora, a generation later -- and the daughter of two soups. Jackie Frost and Fireheart came up with the idea of harnessing her to things so she couldn't fly away. This has its own drawbacks, but it's mostly working, and they figured that out because they're already used to thinking about superpowers and how to solve related challenges -- even though Aurora has a slightly different power set than either of her parents.
So SPOON has developed some resources for parents of superkids, and Soup to Nuts focuses on helping people cope with superpowers. They make considerable use of the foster system to provide emergency care until a child learns control (which Hannah has mentioned doing before), to take over for parents who don't want to keep raising superkids (like Danso's family being in a permanent placement), and to expand family ties for superkids who have a good family but need more support (like the Numerator). Fortunately T-America has much saner family services, so the collateral damage tends to stay minor. You can't take kids out of their home without doing damage, but if you know what you're doing then it's possible to keep that to a minimum instead of life-wrecking levels. What Dr. Fleer does in this poem is a good example of that.