Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums General Discussion Does this ever stop feeling surreal?

Last night I was discussing solar flares with DS(5) & today we started multiplication. He is great with concepts! Science is his strongest area with math coming in second.

Right now I am just feeling like this is so surreal. I mean he really gets space & anatomy & plate tectonics; it does not even seem possible. Yet there he is asking about other solar systems & explaining how mountains are formed. It is just so unexpected. I mean I am sure that "average" kids are not examining the different parts of the brain before starting school. DS has been doing the sort of thing for a while & I never seem to quite adjust to it. Maybe I am just getting a taste of how other people feel when we tell them that he started adding at 3 or maybe I am just coming out of my GT denial. I don't know. Still what I need to know is, does this ever stop feeling so strange?

Thanks

I think that yours is above mine with science, although they are interested. I have my own surreal moments, though. I get strange things like how when my oldest was about 6, we passed a graveyard and she couldn't stop crying, imagining all of the bodies under the ground. Each time we subsequently passed a cementary, she had a million questions about life and death and burial. I asked a friend if her kids asked about these issues, and she smiled and said "we live near a graveyard and my kids have never asked one thing about it, I think yours are...unusual". Oh, OK.

Well, not yet! DH and I regularly have conversations that start with "Do you know what DS7 OR DS4 did today? Can you believe this?"

It still blows me away from time to time. But at least now it's mostly in a good way, not in the breaking-out-in-a-cold-sweat-because-I-don't-know-how-we'll-manage-school way.



(Well, we're still doing *some* sweating with DS4, but at least we have several options now, so my cold sweats are less severe and don't last as long as the ones with DS7 did! LOL!)