...when your 2.25yo insists at 11:30pm--after reading a pile of books the toddler equivalent of K2--that he wants to practice skip counting by 10 before bed. But there's a catch: you have to take turns saying the numbers as fast as humanly possible while jumping on the bed. This went back and forth for 20 minutes with lots of giggle fits and probably hundreds of urges to, "go even faster!"

And some people say gifties don't exhibit overexcitabilities? Yeah, right.

And that pop educator nonsense about young children not having innate number sense? Sure...

What is to give light must endure burning.