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... you lose the ability to spell in front of you 3 year old, so you start making up secret code translations. McDonalds became "The Irish Duck" and IHOP was "The Global Domicile of Flapjacks" Ha! We totally did stuff like this. "The area of aquatic recreational activity." "The vendor of frozen dairy-based substances."
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He was at me all day yesterday to disassemble a computer tower with a transparent case that DH built. You can imagine his excitement when they opened it up to finally study the parts. He's not even 2 and already has better tech knowledge than me. Heh. A couple of years ago I disassembled DW's laptop to address a broken touchpad button... DD predictably ooohed and ahhhed over the result, but my non-technical DW (who swears she's not gifted) was even more keen on it than DD.
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You constantly find yourself reminded of your child's chronological age when a meltdown of some sort occurs moments after he/she has done something brilliant. One minute you're having a conversation and the next you're corralling an inconsolable banshee. And the corollary - You constantly have to remind your child of their chronological age, because they're melting down over a failure to duplicate the results of those much older and better trained.
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When ds11 comes up with a more strict and appropriate consequence than you.
Reading through all of these is fun. How funny some of the stories are!
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Your child gets in trouble at school because she repeatedly corrected the poor spelling of the substitute teacher....and your child doesn't understand why she got in trouble when all she was doing was trying to help.
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... Your child comes home from (insert gifted event here) shocked and dazed because she's never met kids she connected with so well.
... Moving up a level of selectivity for the event causes a repeat of #1.
... to pass the time while you're in a meeting, you hand your preschooler paper and markers. 20 minutes later she has invented a tomato juicing machine, diagrammed its working parts, and has a business plan in place to make money with it - and expects you to help bring it to reality...
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...speaks slowly to adults because they must have a hard time understanding if they are asking such questions.
...she didn't teach us about petition because she probably doesn't know how to explain it to 2nd graders (conversation with DD7 about why her teacher only taught 4 of the 5 freedoms of the first amendment to the 2nd grade class)
A teacher and a parent of gifted children. DD is 7 yr old. Students are 9th-12th graders.
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... to pass the time while you're in a meeting, you hand your preschooler paper and markers. 20 minutes later she has invented a tomato juicing machine, diagrammed its working parts, and has a business plan in place to make money with it - and expects you to help bring it to reality... I love this!!!
What is to give light must endure burning.
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You constantly find yourself reminded of your child's chronological age when a meltdown of some sort occurs moments after he/she has done something brilliant. One minute you're having a conversation and the next you're corralling an inconsolable banshee. And the corollary - You constantly have to remind your child of their chronological age, because they're melting down over a failure to duplicate the results of those much older and better trained. Oh, YES. My DS is still a bit young to understand (allow?) delayed gratification well. Instead, the offending object is usually bludgeoned or shouted at with gutteral contempt. And, so, his Hallowe'en costume this year will be...Braveheart. He's already mastered the war cry.
What is to give light must endure burning.
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Your 2 year old tires of the mundane sameness of the alphabet and switches to mirror writing 'for fun'. You fear she will be writing entirely in code by kindergarten.
Your 5 year old gets into an unnecessary theological debate with a classmate because he does not/cannot believe that someone that old (5) isn't fully conversant with the Big Bang theory.
While your 3 year old provides a one sentence explanation of how Genesis, the Big Bang, evolution and dinosaurs are all mutually compatible. You wish she had shared her analysis with her brother and consider sending her on a world peace tour.
And YES to the better consequences! I now ask what they think an appropriate consequence would be and they invariably come up with something both more appropriate and more onerous than what I would have imposed!
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