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You know you are parenting a gifted child when you scratch your head at how to explain to DS7's best bud why DS7 is so excited that gas dropped to below $3 per gallon. I really have no idea why, but there was singing and hooting involved.

You know you have a gifted child when...You wonder if your child plugs in and downloads info into his brain in the wee hours of the night.

DS' memory continues to amaze us. He appears to have a near "photographic" memory for poetry. My husband says he's going to get a reputation at school and become the new choice for lead in their plays. To which I responded should DS learn that is the consequence of lightning-fast memorization of lines, he will suddenly flub from now on. (He has convinced himself he has stage-fright.)

Now if he could just remember to turn off the light in his room.

LOL!

Has he tried to add the nine-tenths over the entire bill to figure out how much that adds to the total?

Fun times.

there once was a switch in your room.
it's there to shed light in the gloom.
please turn it off,
no, really - don't scoff!
forgetting will surely spell doom.

(whee i could do this all day!)

Ha! Excellent!

When DS5 misreads a subtraction word problem and gets all excited about doing negative numbers at school

...When DS2 gets changed into his PJs and says excitedly, "Look! A panoply of trucks!"

When your teen sulks because you're sending her to bed right in the middle of an AP Statistics lesson that she is "really into."

"Please!!! Mom, just ten more minutes.... pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease..."

When, on a walk, you have to explain to your child the differences between Celsius and Fahrenheit, the conversion. Which then leads to a conversation about how anything can be below freezing and why different things have different freezing and boiling points.

This was on a walk back from our town's Halloween party and we walked by the banks sign which flashes the temp and time.

I had a similar conversation with DD the other day and I used the different freezing points of 'fresh' water versus 'salt' water versus alcohol to introduce Kelvin, too. It just blew her mind when the penny dropped that Absolute Zero is quantifiable.