Maybe I am looking for book recommendations or something, but I am feeling in over my head with my daughter....My daughter turned three a couple days ago. I am assuming she is gifted, physically and intellectually (though probably not emotionally:D) I want to do it right, especially since I was a gifted child who had no support and that did not end well. Developmentally she would be four I guess (drawing people with all parts including toes and fingers, beginning reading, rollerskating, etc). I just worry because I feel like I don't know how to help her. She doesn't want me to help her learn anything. She often learns something and then pretends she doesn't know how to do it for months (She learned to write her name, Ramona, two or three months ago and then after about a week, she started just scribbling and saying she was writing her name but then she started writing it again last week, with speaking she didn't talk til she was 18 months but was using 5 word sentences at 20 months and 7+ sentences before two years). She has very bad concentration, but sometimes she goes into fantasy land and if you ask her to get ready for bed, or come eat breakfast, she screams and cries, insisting that whatever she is fantasizing about is real and more important. She is extremely high energy and when she feels bad, I would say she is almost abusive (if a 3 year old can be). She was very sweet until the last few months, no terrible twos, nothing. Now she is really out of control. I don't want to take her anywhere with me because we argue the whole time because she wants to do whatever she wants to do, but then she is already going stir-crazy inside so much this winter. She has been sick a lot the last few months which I attribute partially to her bad behavior. I guess I am looking for resources in parenting a very high energy, emotional gifted child who likes to pretend she can't do things and doesn't like to do anything you ask her to. I am thinking she may have caught on to the word games they tell you to play in the parenting books. For example, instead of saying "brush your teeth" you say "after you brush your teeth, we will read a book." She seems to know they both mean the same thing, "do what i say." and she doesn't want to do anything I say. Yet she is super bossy and gets mad that I won't do what she says. She keeps telling me, "you are the mommy, you are supposed to take care of me!" I guess her behavior has to be a phase, cause it can't go on forever, but advice and recommendations would be such a help to me.
-Soni
