How and at what point were your children identified as gifted? Did you take them to a psychologist to be tested or do you think it just doesn't matter until school starts? My DD is 3.5 years old. I think she is gifted, but maybe my view is skewed because I am her mother. I will say that my siblings and I as well as my husband were all identified as gifted when we were in school.
Anyway, she is my only child, I don't know if these things are normal for her age or not. The "milestones" charts seem to have a pretty low bar! She can identify all her letters and write most of them, she is starting to try to figure out how things are spelled by sounding them out. She can count to over 100 and do simple math (ie: we have 6 cookies, if we want to have an equal amount how many would we have each?). She likes art and draws fairly detailed pictures. Also, she has a very good memory - she heard a book in daycare for the first time yesterday and came home and told me the whole story and recited a big part of it verbatim. She has a good imagination, and has imaginary friends and gets very involved in pretend play.
My question, sorry for rambling on, is:
a: does this seem like a gifted child
b: if so, is there any reason to test her at this age
c: if so, how does one go about doing that?
Thanks everyone for your help!
