Another part of the article that concerns me is this quote by Keplinger (Palo Alto School District - Parent Education)
Kids need to have other things in place before reading. At age 4 years old, they need to work on emotional growth, social and fine motor skills. They need to have other things in place before reading.
While I agree with the importance of those things,
I have to disagree here as well. Mr W is learning patience and fine motor skills
because he wants to learn more - playing with the keyboard, waiting for screens to change, sharing time on the TV with us, sharing reading time with us, learning how to use the remote, spending time reading on his own at daycare while other kids do their thing, and then changing his focus to do other things when he is engrossed in his toys. He also helps around the house.
If he was an ND kid, he would not play with all these things or encounter conflicts or develop helping skils like this until later - so he is learning other life skills at an earlier age.
So, again, I have to disagree with the "experts."
They do not see gitedness as connected to other things - they focus on one skill - and not on how this skill lifts up others. Their model of child development is flawed.
