Originally Posted by jojo
Deborah Ruf says that physical milestones are mostly irrelevant to giftedness however she has a whole list of 'academic' milestones that are more telling - things like colours, shapes, numbers, letters, word count, sentence structure, etc.
jojo


That dovetails pretty neatly with my experience with dd. At five she developed a fondness for Sylvia Plath...but we kept extra underpants in the glove box of the car because potty training was still not 100%.

"I love it when you two impersonate earthlings."