How old was your child when you suspected that might be gifted?
It wasn't just one thing.... I had to be convinced to even suspect he was.
1. He started talking in full sentences before he was a year.

2. He gave me his bottle when he was 11 months and said,"No more of this."

3. At around a year, he would point to the sign on store like walmart and target when we pulled in the parking lot and say there name.

I guess the Ah-ha moment came when he pointed to a can of pepsi and said "pepsi" when he was 15 months old, we don't normally drink soda so it was a rare thing for him to see a can of soda.

At 17 months he started pointing to letters and not only saying the name of the letter, but making it's phontic sound.

How old was your child when you knew for sure, and what tipped you off?
We was 2 and a half and we were sitting in a McDonalds. He pointed to a sign ans said, "That says exit"
'Site reading', I thought. 'He uses my computer, its a common word to mover from one window to the next on the kids games..... he didn't really read it.'

"Yep, it says exit. What other words do you know" I asked.

He started pointing around the McDonalds, "That says 'on' that says 'go', that says 'Next'"

"All site words" I though.

Then he pointed to a large sign and said, "That says 'salad'"

I froze and then twitched...... 'Did I just hear that? ok, he's reading."

We went home and he read me Hop on Pop cover to cover.

How old was your child when, and if, you had them tested?
When he went to kindergarten he was 5. He is supposetly "off the charts in verbal and hg in math


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