DD is only 3.3 so she hasn't been tested and I am not at all confident. She certainly has skills that are above developmental expectations when it comes to reading, math (that is her main area of strength/talent), puzzles, and such. She also makes me think scientists are born, not made; when she scraped her knee badly a month ago, she had to research into how her body is healing the wound.
I think she is an amazing child but doesn't every mother feel that way about her children?
The idea that she may be a PG tickles my funny bone. No, I really don't think she is one. I think it freaks people out to see her be able to read anything put in front of her and be interested in grand scientific concepts but how much of that is exposure? I was talking to another mother yesterday and she had never taken her child to a library, like ever. We go every other day and I get nervous if we have less than 30 unread books piled up in the apartment. SO and I read to her about an hour a day and she reads to herself for another hour. She spends at least an hour on mathy activities a day and if I don't put a cap on that, I think she'd go all day exploring numbers. So yes, I suppose she might test rather high on achievement tests during earlier years but I have no idea where her IQ would fall.
