Helicopter Mom has taken wing to other endeavors. Her story, and that of her amazing young son, will be a book. We will let you know when we hear more details about it. Their astonishing saga of what it took for one young American child to learn how to read ended this year when her young son was recognized by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth as being one of the smartest kids in the country, scoring in the 92 percentile on the verbal section of the SCAT, an exam that identifies children as verbally gifted if they score in the 50th percentile or higher.
Clearly, this is a boy who is verbally gifted.
Clearly, this is a boy who should not have had a problem learning how to read.
Clearly, the problem lay in the reading curriculum and not in the child.
Clearly, theirs is a story that must be told and we are proud to have told it here first.