Hi all, poster from the UK here!
My daughter is 3 and 3/4 and loves learning. Based on Davidson�s levels of giftedness I would tentatively place her at around Level 3 / possibly a 4.
She learns quickly. At 2, she learnt to count to 10 in four additional languages in just a couple of days after it randomly popped up on YouTube. The same applied to lists like the planets, colours of the rainbow etc..
As you can imagine, it�s tempting to harness this potential and teach her lots more but as parents we are wary of causing her stress. More importantly, she is fiercely independent and prefers to do things on her own terms. For example, she can read simple readers but prefers being read to and resists encouragement to read herself so we don�t press her.
As kids do, she develops deep interests in subjects and then finds something new to engage with.
Recently her love of maths has been really developing, largely in part to an excellent TV series in England called Numberblocks which is helping her to understand the things she has memorised (odds and evens, counting, simple addition and 2, 5 and 10 times tables). We look for opportunities to question her and help her think and reason mathematically but recently it has had some impact on her normal day to day activities. She�ll say things like �did you know 86 is even?� or �81 is a square� while we are playing another game. While we are very proud we don�t want her to be over-thinking, particularly since she sometimes can�t switch off at bedtime. She has also become a bit of a perfectionist and she gets stressed quickly if she can�t do something.
What do we do? We�ve taken a step back with our questioning but should we block any educational shows / apps for a while? Many thanks in advance.
