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Maybe not exactly a reality check, since by the time kids are 12 we parents usually have it figured out that there's something "different"  ... but fwiw one of those "reminder" moments... It's science fair time of the year.. and this is the first year ds will have been in a school that actually holds a science fair. He's got a great idea for a project. He doesn't want to do it. He told me he was really really scared and worried about it. When I asked him why he was worried, I was anticipating hearing about how he's never been in a science fair before, he doesn't know what to expect, he might not have time to do it, other kids might make fun of his idea.. those kind of things. Nope. He doesn't want to put his project in the science fair because he's afraid someone else will see it and patent his idea. LOL! polarbear I love this! Thanks for the smile!
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Polarbear, I think filling out a patent application would be just the right followup. Laughing here.
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At 7 1/2 months visiting my next door neighbor who does daycare and has seen it all. DD standing on sofa with a floral patterned fabric and my hand on her back to keep her steady. As neighbor and I chat dd points with tiny fingers at the pattern on the back of the sofa "ed... ey-ow... een... ooo..." I notice neighbor stops talking then after watching for a moment says "Ummm... she knows her colors??!!??"
Yeah she had been doing it for a few weeks but I didn't want to be "that mom" so I never said anything to anyone. I shrugged and said "Is it really THAT unusual?" Ummm.... yeah!
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My youngest started talking pretty late compared to my two older kids. When he was about a year and a half, he was misbehaving. As I usually did, I started counting to three to give him a warning to stop what he was doing. When I hit two, he still was misbehaving. When he saw that punishment was inevitable, he quickly said, "twee,foh,fibe,sits,seben,eight,nine,ten,eleben,twelb." I had no idea he knew how to count. And, yes, he got himself out of trouble with his little performance. I think my youngest was about 18-20 months when she started saying "Two! Three!" whenever she heard us start counting her older sisters. Took us a couple of rounds before we twigged...
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Not an aha moment for me but for some unsuspecting barista when my 16 month old (who only look about 12 months) ordered her own tall decaf mocha latte. They offered her a job.
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Mr W's piano teacher still talks about him sight reading sheet music when he was 3. When he was 2, he sang several pop songs au capella perfectly in front of strangers at a picnic. At the Christmas Recital in front of hundreds of people with a bunch of kids and his teacher, his timing was perfect while everyone else's was off.
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DD#1 telling a stranger how to spell our rather long & complex last name when she was about 15 months old.
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My DS was writing at 11 months. He would stand at the easel and painstakingly write out each letter over and over until he was satisfied. That was the first thing that no amount of denial would cure.
It was at about 4 that I realized just how extreme he was. After our school district refused early admit to K and needing to earn an income, I purchased an old montessori school and turned it into a pre-school. I homeschooled him and he could hang with the other kids when he wanted to.
The guinea pig had babies and he wanted to know how. Being an accomplished "googler" he went looking for information. That night at dinner he explained the entire reproductive process to my partner and I. It was all very clinical. But he didn't stop there. He now understood that he was biological to only one of us since reproduction required a male of the species. He guessed that he was in fact my son because of shared characteristics and asked that we address the matter of who his father was. Explaining a sperm bank to a 4 yo.... The whole thing was surreal and the day I realized that I was in for a hell of a ride!
Fast forward to today. He has 8th grade science and his teacher approached me about the fact that she would be teaching a unit on sex education this semester. She was concerned because of his age. I had to laugh and tell her that he could teach the unit!
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Mom to DS 10, DS 11, DS 13
Ability doesn't make us, Choices do!
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DD3mos started squirming and fussing as I tried to put on her pjs for bed. I carried her over to her closet and started shuffling through outfits, and she lunged at one and grabbed it. I had no trouble putting it on her. From that moment on we never had any success putting an outfit on her that she hadn't chosen. She had several outfits she'd never wear no matter what, so we stopped clothes shopping without her. We'd hold up outfits, and she'd snatch some (keep) and thrust others away (discard).
By the time she was two, she delighted in picking out my clothes, too.
My big "holy crap!" moment for her emotional sensitivity didn't occur until she was four, because before that I never really saw anything I didn't expect from a little kid (for the record, I always saw the intellectual ability but never the emotional sensitivity... for my wife, this was reversed). I had a day off and I took her out to the end of the driveway to wait for the school bus with her friends. We'd had a very pleasant morning up to this point. I noticed it was chilly, so she needed a coat, and I ducked inside to get it. I just walked up and started helping her into it, and she EXPLODED. I was flabbergasted... all this about a coat??
I wasn't going to let her get on the bus without her coat, but I wasn't going to wrestle her in the street to get it on her, either, so I sent her inside and she missed the bus.
I gave her some time to cool off, then we talked some more, she exploded some more (I probably didn't handle it very well, since this was so completely unexpected and I was so unprepared to deal with it), and after about forty minutes of this I finally blurted out, "I don't know why this is such a big issue. It's just a coat. You can take it off."
And at that final pronouncement, the drama immediately came to an end. The big issue was she thought she'd have to wear it all day.
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