My kid is still a baby, but I keep comming on here for unknown reasons... Anyway, his dad tells me I answer his questions in too much detail, and that I interpret his signals "too ambitiously."
And his dad *was* a gifted kid (IQ 150+, accellerated a few grades in a special school, etc).
I keep not telling him what my son did in a day, and letting him see it "first," but that's not going to work much longer, becasue we're starting to get more than isolated words.
Anyway, his dad just gets sour, for lack of a better word, about the early milestones and he's getting more and more dense to communication -- to the point where I don't really like leaving them alone much becasue when I return the kid is just livid. I don't really know how to deal with this, becasue I want to honour his father's parenting style... But I also know that the kid took his first longish walks two months ago, and is now not walking becase he's nervous (he walks _much_ more around me), and to me that's not really ok. And winding up with an angry kid after an hour or so is very much not ok.
Arg?
-Michaela
** standard disclaimer: it's waaaaay to early to know if DS is actually gifted, yadda, yadda, yadda, so this may not actually apply to anyone else here.
Last edited by Michaela; 12/30/09 10:01 AM.
