• when the sarcasm and Liz Lemon-style eyerolls begin at age 2, rather than 10
• when your 2 y/o has a favourite word, and it is "antidisestablishmentarianism" (because it is a tongue-twister)
• when your 3 y/o goes on a school interview and brings her Hallowe'een costume as her "favourite object" to discuss. it is a Marathon of Hope t-shirt and she spends the entire interview talking about how her hero died of cancer.
• when your 5 y/o blows through 50% of a subject's curriculum in SIX DAYS. (@$#!)

this IS fun! i cannot wait to read more of these...

and i JUST realized something funny. the title of this thread is 'you know you're parenting a gifted child when...' and i just gave three examples from the time when that possibility hadn't even occurred to me yet.

Last edited by doubtfulguest; 09/16/13 01:41 PM. Reason: irony
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