Seriously, yes it makes me feel good as a parent, but I worry what it will do to DD when she gets older. I am talking about the "Oh My God, How old is she?" And "omg! she is so smart" and the "omg" response after everything she says. We had this twice today. Once with a new parent at the library story time. I can't even count how many times this was said.....then we took a walk and (well we live in a small town and everyone talks to everyone) we met a lady who started talking to DD and we had it again....everything was "OMG". DD didn't see to be paying to much attention to either of these because she was busy talking and playing at the library and was busy talking about the ladybug she had gotten to crawl on her hand on our walk. This lady was lamenting the loss of the gifted program our district use to have once she started talking to DD. Her son went through it. Anyway, Yes it makes me proud as a parent that others recognize DD's giftedness wih out me pointing it out, but I worry about what constantly hearing this is going to do to her.
How do you respond so that it she doesn't get affected negatively by it?
