Tag #136320 - Interview #78490 (Katalin Kallos Havas)

I had to stop working because my older son had some problems at school and had to stay at home. He was too bright compared to his classmates and was disturbing the classes. Someone had to stay with him to prevent him becoming a delinquent. At home Peter used to sit in his father’s lap all the time. I don’t know how my husband managed to work while his son was sitting in his lap, continually asking questions. My husband was working with the typewriter, and in the meantime our son learnt every letter on it. The director of the day-care told my husband, ‘Your son is our greatest help, but he is the examiners’ nightmare.’ The trainees of the kindergarten-teacher school were examined in the day-care of Bolyai University. For example one day a Szekler girl was being examined and she had to tell a story. As she was telling it, and talked about an automobile, she kept saying ‘oetoe’ instead of auto. My son, of course, interrupted her saying it’s not ‘oetoe’, but auto. He used to interrupt the examinees, so they often got confused. The same happened in primary school. He was too bright and he wasn’t too ashamed to show it. He could already read and write when he started school. He was disturbing the teacher, always interrupted the classes. And at parents’ meetings I had to listen to all this. The teacher was desperate. He finished the primary school on Teglas Street.