Originally Posted by Cocopandan
I have to agree with many of the posts. Surrounded by many other gifties, our children did not seem extraordinary, especially when we have close friends with 4 PGlets in their families!
Yes!! Part of my denial when he was younger was because we lived in the Bay Area. What he did intellectually just didn't seem so unusual when there were younger kids doing much more physically and quite a few of them intellectually also. And then I had my first brush with the word 'asynchrony' and almost literally felt the huge light bulb turn on!

Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
Her stubborn streak is a thing of awe-inspiring magnitude.
We're beginning to see this in our usually not-so-stubborn DS8. I'm seriously dreading the tween/teen years and am hanging around here hoping for more threads on tween/teen behavior so I can be prepared. smile