I know it is shocking to realize that what your kid is doing is so not within the normal range. Take a deep breath...take it day by day. You are on your way to taking the most amazing ride. Yes, it is very frustrating because society is not at all geared towards dealing with highly gifted children. But as far as dealing with your daughter's abilities you will do just fine.
Make sure you start to read up on all things gifted including the possibility of "overexcitability". Since learning about that I can be so much more supportive of my DS4's sensitivity to noise etc. Whereas before knowing it is part of his giftedness it made me extremely frustrated. You have a highly gifted child, what a blessing! What we need to do though, I feel, is to learn everything there is to learn so that we can nurture them, understand them fully AND advocate for them.
I am with you. My mouth drops when I hear about what kids are "SUPPOSED" to be doing at a certain age. My DS,23 months (don't know yet if HE is gifted) is currently obsessed with learning the sounds of the letters since he already mastered the alphabet, upper/ lower case.. this is what my DS4's classmates are doing in PreK at the moment....Ds4 was never physical. As a matter of fact he couldn't even jump until he was beyond 3. Needed help stepping down from a 5 inch ledge for the longest time (DS 23 months is the same). They are just so focused on the intellectual areas to bother with the physical.
And about the talking, DS4 was not an early talker. At age 2 he would say 6 word sentences but he didn't really start to talk until about 18 months. Being bilingual MAY have had something to do with that though.
Sorry, this is long. All I really meant to say is, you'll be OK. Get the recommended books, read up and enjoy the ride!
Annie
Last edited by 1111; 11/09/11 08:04 PM.
