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    Do any of you experience this as well-emotional intensity just before waking from "hibernation"? Our DS, 3.5, will become very emotional and then have a huge leap in an interest. He'll be devasted all day and then the next he'll wake up and ask to do "homeschool" for hours.

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    Yup, though in our case the emotional intensity can go on for weeks or months as we watch intellect leaps and bounds at the same time.

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    Our second son ds4, very much changes in leaps. Yet, unlike his older brother who was eager to show us what he knew and ask for more; this guy fools us every time! It's kind of funny. Just trying to keep the boys need for learning fed.

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    Originally Posted by Melessa
    Our second son ds4, very much changes in leaps. Yet, unlike his older brother who was eager to show us what he knew and ask for more; this guy fools us every time! It's kind of funny. Just trying to keep the boys need for learning fed.

    What do you mean by this, Melessa? Does he not want to share his knowledge, is he more introverted?

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    GGG- my younger son is not introverted. He just won't perform unless he wants. For example, he has refused to speak one word of Spanish. Then, while he was sitting in the bathroom, he recited 1-20 in Spanish. I found out he knew how add and subtract by playing a Cars math game. We had never shown him any math before since he won't even answer questions like "what number is that?" It's very frustrating to try to figure out where he's at. His latest obsession is wanting to know how everything works and how things are made.

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    Originally Posted by GGG
    Do any of you experience this as well-emotional intensity just before waking from "hibernation"?

    Yes!

    Add to the list sleep disturbances, like napping for 4 (!) hours or being wide awake until midnight (obviously not uncorrelated). DS-almost 3 is on a cognitive spurt these past two weeks. I've seen his natural waking time slip back from 8:30am to 10:30am and his nap stretch to 3, even 4 hours. I just run with it.

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    GGG- my younger son is not introverted. He just won't perform unless he wants.

    DS behaves similarly. He won't often sit and read to me, but he'll write out words with his magnetic letters to leave me "secret codes".


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