Just wanted to let you know that although all kids are different and ymmv, being an uber-early reader does not necessarily condemn your child to a horrible school experience. Like your ds, my dd was clearly reading words at 24 months. At that point, she was already word and book obsessed, and still is a voracious and lightning fast reader at 12yo. We've been fortunate, and it hasn't always been great, but we've generally been successful with the neighborhood public schools for seven years now. Despite scoring off the charts on pretty much any objective measure in academic subjects, she has never been grade accelerated and has never been in a gifted "program" (we don't do that in our district!!). The only formal accommodation is subject acceleration in math (she just did honors algebra as a 6th grader). She is an amazingly happy and well-adjusted pre-teen (knock on wood) who just happens to have extraordinary academic abilities.
Have fun with your sweet little reader. (For the past 10 years, dh and I have had the job of feeding the obsession. Thank goodness for the public library, because we'd be broke and displaced by piles of books if we had purchased everything she reads. And thank goodness for the Kindle too -- we can now travel without a suitcase full of books!)
Last edited by amylou; 07/17/12 08:36 AM.
