My DD was tested with the WPPSI at 3.4 and her verbal is quite high (99.6) but her performance IQ was "only" 94th percentile, but I know that she could have done better with the spatial tasks, because she has been amazing with puzzles understanding shapes and patterns etc. but she shows no interest in legos, puzzles, or anything related to building and is so verbal that sometimes I wonder if I should help her distribute herself by encouraging puzzles / building /etc. She actually froze on one of the spatial tests and really didn't do it so the fact that she even scored 94th surprised me. I think she was just less confident since she NEVER touches blocks or anything related to building. She does color beautifully and make amazing 3-D clay sculpture of figurines, etc. So, do I just let her do her own thing as I have been, or gently expose her to things that are a little outside of her interst like Legos, or other building things? I also had high verbal skills / scores, but was also quite good in math so I have a feeling she is as well. Anyway, any thoughts on this? Do you encourage branching out or do you let your child just do whatever floats her boat. For the most part, I let her do whatever she wants, because for one thing, she is highly stubborn, opinionated, and willful, but some part of me thinks exercising the spatial part of her brain would be good "exercise."
