She's tried sharing at "share-time" her passion for american history and her interest in different decades (the fifties being her personal favorite), but both were received, to her surprise, with uninterest by her class of peers. She's back to sharing her Littlest Pets.
Welcome! I agree it sounds like your daughter could benefit from some time with other gifted kids or kids who are at least older than her. Most 5-year-olds are not going to be interested in history. Heck, most 6 or 7-year-olds probably wouldn't be. My DS4 has had this problem as well. He desperately wants someone to build intricate androids, spaceships and whatnot out of legos with him and then use these lego creations to act out elaborate make believe stories. I don't have the energy for this myself, so I would invite other 4 and 5-year-old boys over for playdates, put out the legos, and say "go to it." Before long, I realized the other kids would build a simple car, lose interest and want to play something else, leaving DS4 disappointed. One boy a full year older than my son actually cried because he couldn't come close to building what my son was making. Now my son is in kindergarten and even though, at 4, he's the youngest kid in his class, the kids he comes home talking about--the ones who share and appreciate his passion for legos--are all either 6 or 7 and in grades 1 and 2. We're lucky in that he gets to see these kids throughout the day and spend lots of free time with them on the days he stays for after school care.
Is there any kind of mixed-age after school care or after school club that your daughter could participate in? You might be surprised by how many grades you need to go up to find your daughter's peers.
