amylou my older sister was like your DD and my mother taught her to read before she entered school. My mother and sister both enjoyed it very much and my mother was so proud (my father too!)She has always been a voracious reader she sort of breathes in the books.
Since I was next my mother took the initiative to teach me too and I had no interest. There is a stereotypical image of early reader=gifted so sometimes when a child is the minority in a family of gifted readers the child gets the impression that slow to read=stupid, especially if the adults become frustrated. So I guess this is my "reading baggage" LOL
I wasn't second guessing you, just responding to the question someone posted about why one might *teach* a child so young to read. We actually have a comparison child as well, dd's twin brother. At one point when they were 2yo, dh and I were so sucked into dd's reading vortex that we worried that we were neglecting a similar inclination on ds's part -- that maybe he just was not as effective at asserting as she. So we *did* try briefly with him, but it was abundantly clear that he didn't give a s*** about letters, so we stopped. He did learn to read at about 3.5 yo, but probably would have waited for kindy if it hadn't been for watching the example of his book-loving twin. We did think she was "the gifted one" (or a reading savant?), but time has proven us wrong. He has some executive function issues that she doesn't, combined with a strong stubborn streak, but is an extremely strong performer academically.
