Gifted Child

I've been lurking around here a bit. Posting here and there. But I'm still not sure if my 2 year old is 'gifted' or just bright.

He'll be 2 1/2 at Christmas.

Well, he just started 'real' daycare (we had a lady watch him in her house before). Within the first week I have had 2 separate teachers tell me how 'old' he seems. "It's like I'm talking to an 8 year old!" one said. She was exaggerating, of course. But ya.

I joke that I never had an infant. He walked out like that. He was a 2 year old when he was a baby and now that he's 2 it's more like there is a 4 year old in the house some days.

I'm very grateful that I chose the daycare I did. 2.5 - 5 years old all in one room. So he can play with older kids or who ever.

Anyway, just had to tell someone that I think I finally belong! LOL

I've been reading some of your posts on schooling and I'm not sure I'm looking forward to all this!

Welcome - I mainly lurk as well:)

I completely understand - My DD is only 19 months and while I believe that she is advanced, it is waaaaay too early to use the "g" label. As a side note, I got a funny comment from the daycare teacher yesterday. They said that DD is so smart that by the time she transitions to the "2s" room, she will be ready for the "3s" room lol.

I like the concept of the daycare that you use with all of the kids in one room - ours is much more segregated by age / developmental level

Anyway, would love to hear about your lo and look forward to your posts!

I will definitely still use the 'bright' label. LOL. He is no where near reading or anything super advanced that I read about on here. He loves, loves, LOVES books though. So much that we have had to put a 'cap' on how many books a day. It's become an obsession.

Right now he is amazing me by correcting his own grammar. And mine sometimes. The other day he was playing with a lego man. He had girl hair and was putting it on the boy and making him a girl. He thought this was hilarious and was doing it over and over. I was half awake on the couch and he came up to show me. I said, "Ya, he's cool," absently. "No SHE'S cool, silly." He has rapidly learned almost all the proper tenses and general grammar after I correct him once or twice. "Here I am." "I fell down." "I ran here." No runned, falled, or talking in the third person. And very long sentences as well.

Something else he is doing that is amazing/making me crazy: He's making up weird stories. It seems that he is really sick of our nightly conversations about what he did that day. The other day I took him swimming. He had a lot of fun and I thought he would want to tell daddy. So I said, tell daddy what we did today. He says, "Went to park." I said, "What? No no...where did we go?"
"The park." he insisted. He then told a story of playing with 'Zachary' in the park. We don't know a Zachary. Not even at daycare. He has been doing this a lot. Whenever he is bored with the line of questioning!

He has been tricking me about how much he knows too. I will ask what is this? It will be an 'i' and he will say 'o'. When I point to the 'o' and say what's this? He'll say 'o' again. I say, well how can this be an 'o' and this be an 'o' too? He'll just give me a very small smile. Then later while playing with dh he'll tell me that 'daddy has an 'R' on his shirt!' and he'll be reading it UPSIDE DOWN!! Like hell he doesn't know an 'i' when he sees one. Little bugger.

:)

Sounds like you definitely need to hang around with us.  Someone just commented last week that neither of my children were ever really children.  :-)

I'm sorry I didn't respond to your post earlier.  I've been running around with my gifted child.  I'm barely getting laundry done, let alone keeping up with the board!  Anyway...I hope you will jump in and feel free to post with us!