When Our Most Intelligent Children Suddenly Shift: A Troubled and Tender Time for Boys and Girls Between 10 and 13
Over the many years I have been helping families with a history of high achievement and passion for learning, I have noticed an important pattern which I call the “Sudden Shift.”
While all children naturally change when they reach the threshold of puberty, usually around the ages of 10 to 13, some children, particularly those with very high IQs experience profound psychological changes brought on by a mix of physiological triggers including changes in hormones, as well as environmental evolution at home and in school.