Hi everyone,
I thought I was way too early too, but adhoc made me think I should de-lurk. My daughter (I'll call her Hanni) is not quite 2.
I've been amazed at some of the abilities people describe on this forum! Hanni is a pretty advanced talker (5 word sentences, plurals, past tense, emotion words, counting, prepositions, even a dependent clause a couple of times), but she's not one of the super-prodigies who talk and do math at 18 months.
But what's really striking is her conceptual understanding. For example, we were outside, she had a jacket on, I asked her if she was cold, and she said, "No. Warm. Jacket on." The grammar was nothing to brag about, but she was giving me an explanation. Stuff like that. It's hard to describe or give convincing examples.
Anyway, I'm thrilled to be finding communities of people with gifted kids. I really want Hanni to have peers and not feel like a big freak.
Oh, and also I'm a university professor and my field is cognitive science. I've been absolutely fascinated on a professional level by how many different ways there are to be gifted. I have half a mind to start doing research on giftedness!
Meg
