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Anyway, DD(now 9) coerced me into helping her learn to read when she was a toddler. She too, had the alphabet mastered at 16 months and didn't talk until 24 months (raging perfectionism, lol). She was driven, driven, DRIVEN to learn what these "things" were in books - she'd crawl after me, furniture walk after me, book in one hand... lol I'd try and hide (seriously - she was so non-stop). She point to something in the book and stare into my eyes, until I gave her a label for it. She was eerily quiet, but SO intense - she'd look INTO you, not at you.
This is such a funny story! One of my boys (not the PG one) was like this as well. At 6 months, he would grab my finger as I was reading to him and put it on a picture so I would label it for him. He'd say "at," for "what's that?" Then he would "steer" my finger somewhere else on the page so I could talk about something else.
