From the article: Things Gifted Kids Do and Say
Has your child done or said things that single you out as the parent of a gifted child? Has your two-year old daughter told his grandmother her behavior was "inappropriate"? Has your son's third grade teacher called to tell you that your son doesn't seem to understand multiplication, which puzzles you since he's working out algebra problems at home? Share your experience by completing the sentence "You know you're the parent of a gifted kid when..." Complete the sentence
Future musician?
- When your six-year-old asks her father to teach her to play the recorder, and after 15 minutes of learning she asks him to teach her a song. So he turns around, challenging her to learn Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" without seeing how he played it. She played it correctly after listening to it once.
- —Guest amused
At school
- When your teacher tells you that at midday, your 4 year old daughter was reading out the information on the milk carton in French, English, German and Italian (we live in Switzerland). She was also pronouncing it correctly and when asked, explained to the teacher what the nutritional information meant.
- —Guest aave
Two gifted daughters
- You know you're the parent of two gifted kids when the youngest asks her sister: "Why are you learning all the names and distances of the stars?" And the eldest replies: "Well, why are YOU learning the first 200 digits of pi?"
- —Guest aave
wow
- When it wouldn't stop snowing and my 4 year old says "we should build a plane and kick the weather man off his cloud" I asked how we would get a plane, he says "hire people to build one for us, and tell them to put autopilot in it" I was stunned and said "why autopilot" he responds "incase the plane malfunctions" i was again taken back by this and said "what do you mean by malfunction" he says" you know like crash". Or when he was outside playing football with me and says "you know dad football is more of an elaborate game then soccer" I asked what elaborate meant he responds like I'm stupid and says "its harder like you know more tricky".
- —Guest dada
Equations
- Your 5 year old kid solves equations like 1+X=6 and reads since he was 3 year old. He also understands how the number 0 works.
- —Guest Jose V
British pub sign..
- At 18 months as we stood in front of a British pub to order breakfast and our son was calling out every letter on the special board upper and lower case, people couldn't believe it and neither could we.
- —Guest Debbie
You knew your child is gifted when....
- You have to make her put the book down and go outside and play.
- —Guest Pat
dog food bag
- When your two year old grandbaby walks in and reads the dog food bag. "Great pet foods for great pets."
- —Guest gma
Hot Feet!
- Your two year old gets out of the pool and says, " these octagons are hot," referring to the tiles around the pool!
- —Guest Lesley Ryden
large vocabulary and good memory
- at 2 and a half y.o., when asked what he meant by "big", your child proceeds to explain that it is the same as large, jumbo, huge, vast, enormous, humongous and gigantic. Then he continues on explaining how to apply each term when describing something; ....or at 18 months, after reading a book to him just once, the second time you start to read it to him, he will not let you finish each sentence. He finishes it for you with the correct words just like in the book; ....or at 24 months he watches a movie in the theater with you, seated perfectly still for the 3 hours, leaning occasionally to you to tell you this and that about what is happening as if you are the one who might not be able to understand what's going on.
- —Guest riesi drake
Hyper
- when at 1 DAY old you go get her from the baby room and her crib is directly in front of the doctor's desk because she slides up the crib with her feet (face up and face down) so her head hit the glass, she cries and the doctor HAS to attend her. Walks at 5 months. At 1 year she counts from 1 to 20! in english and spanish. At 2 years old finishes a set of 12 puzzles with their puzzle pieces mixed up in a mountain in 10 minutes while I TRY to cook. At 4 years old within a week or less of starting school, is taking 1 grade but she herself wanted to go back to Pre-School with the nap time and the books, but they skipped her to kindergarden (still 1 year ahead) not to learn, but to help the students who are not succeding in class. That and lots more.
- —Guest Camelot
brothers outsmart each other
- on the way home from violin lessons you are explaining to your 4 year old how to add similar very big numbers (mom, what is 1 million plus one million?) and show him with "what is 2 plus 2" and he says 4, and then you ask "what is 200 plus 200 and your 2 year old pipes up 400 before big brother can finish chewing a sweet to answer.
- —Guest Mom of 3 smart boys
Caribbean todler enjoys learning
- Your son could identify all letters of the alphabet and give his sounds at 18 months. Before 2 yrs he knew blends and could spell three letter words. At 2 he could tell the initial letter in any word and read words like "decodable." At 28 months he counts to 100, enjoys counting backwards and identifies every number up to 1000 which he calls "ten hundred." He does all this without training. Incidentally, he's an only child and has never been to day care. He identifies the names of motor vehicles. For example, he doesn't say Toyota. He has to specify, so it's Toyota Tacoma or Nissan Bluebird.
- —Guest Sunshine Mom
Bilingual
- When your daughter of 5 decides to learn to read in English and French at the same time, and succeeds.
- —Lemerle
Santa?
- When your 4 year old asks you "who delivered the presents before Santa was born?"...my response? Family business.
- —Guest mom2tw0
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