Good Morning!

Thanks everyone for the encouragement !

@Nan... too funny ...my son picked an engineering camp and science camp ...LOL

@ cricket2... I think EPGY takes the "age" and places the child.
They also placed DS at 4.5 and I also Bumped him up to 5.0
prior to even starting (he will be in 5th in the fall). He was on for approx 2 weeks and they are giving him stuff in 5.5-5.7 on his graph. He is assigned at 5.3 at the moment...so slightly above. But he LOVES it...

Dottie ...I would love to have heard RR talk. I am new at this and I have no idea who he is, but now I will go look for his info. Problem solving seems to be my DS weakness. I think because things have been easy for him and he has sailed through.It seems when he is challenged he just moves the other way.

His dad is the same way. He got into Photography and when he ordered a camera and couldn't figure it out...he bought a different one and when that one didn't come easy another one. Once he understood the working of the camera, he tackled the other cameras...Now we are dealing with editing software...LOL
My husband is gifted ...but he will deny it because his brother was so much MORE gifted. He graduated HS at 16 and was valedictorian...He was in college calculus at 16 (best grade in class)...but not gifted.

CAmom...my DS is the same way...had 99.8 in spelling. He missed a word because of his writing, his cursive "m" looked like an "n". Handwriting is his enemy...of course it's not easy for him so he "hates" it.

It was this attitude that has made me think that maybe he is just "smart" I assumed "gifted" children thrived on challenges.

Gifted children really have not been examined enough in this country in fact they have been pushed under the rug to fend for themselves.
We wonder why we are no longer top in Medicine and technology?

We are blessed to have the resources to feed his addiction to learning. It is not cheap...a trip to the book store can really add up. He want to HAVE books...we tried the library but he didn't want to return the books.

Gotta go Phone is ringing off the hook