Post 8 B

I believe these is a very large drawback to testing your child's IQ at a young age. First off, regardless of who believes that a child is intelligent enough to handle a test that young, many children have not gone through the pruning process and a parent cannot know if the test holds any validity to it. Also, a parent is not an expert and to administer a test to your child without knowing the reprecussions, is asking for disappointments. Another point is that this gives the parents pre-concieved expectations for their children before they even begin school. If your child scores high, a parent might have higher expectations than they should. If a child scores low, then parents will have low standards for their child which can damage their overall intelliegence in the long run. I really cannot see an upside to testing a young child's IQ except to maybe have a "slight" idea into how smart a child is.