Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Age or Ability Specific Forums Pre-school MY DD is just "TOO MUCH"

My suggestion would be to set up the environment to allow for her to get out her gusto in appropriate ways. That might include: plenty of hard daily exercise - like swimming running and so forth, access to climbing, jumping and spinning equipment, opportunities to be outside and to be as loud as she wants. It might be also good to try to work with her to make a list of indoor behaviors that are allowed that help her get out some of the energy. A few ideas that come to mind are pushing the wall as hard as she can, turning up the music and dancing, yoga, and any activity that puts her on her belly like commando crawling across the living room and seeing how fast she can go. Even doing something like helping her learn the rules to wrestling might help.

The next step is to encourage her to start to better identify what she needs and how to redirect herself to where she can get that energy out in ways that are appropriate. If she has good outlets it may be that she can get some of it out before it comes out in ways that aren't appropriate.

If she doesn't already have them it sounds like she might benefit from some playmates, boys or girls, who share her energy level. Mom can try to crank it up and join in but you are just never going to be the equivalent of a pack of kids all roaring around being dinosaurs or pirates or whatever. She probably needs way to really get that out.