With ds6 it was his preschool teachers who never stopped mentioning to me that he was gifted. I kept saying to myself, yeah, right, they just like him because he is so cute or because he is well behaved or because the class was full of English Language Learners who didn't speak English so of course he looks like a genius. I found tons of excuses not to believe them until he turned 5.

...reading is pleasure, not just something teachers make you do in school.~B. Cleary