But having ridden far enough down this river of raising gifted kids to have plunged over a few waterfalls and jostled through a boatload of rapids, my advice to all of them is pretty much the same. Keep an eye out, log the milestones in case you need them for applications, but just enjoy these slower years before life ramps up and you're in the thick of it having to advocate and argue and push and interject and intrude and... Really. When they're tiny is the only time you can just savor their growth and not have to fight someone else to make sure your kiddo is getting what they need in a system not built for them.
This is really great advice, but also, for us anyway, going down the path early and thinking about the future has confirmed our desire to probably homeschool, and hopefully we can plan for our future (financially) with that in mind.
But I guess you can't avoid having to push and such even if you do homeschool, right? There are a lot of other activities with age rules.
