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We tried that and my DD's principle started making accommodations quickly to keep DD in school. Apparently threatening the test score average at our school was the way to get things done. But the good thing is they started working with us.

your two and five year olds decide on what tv show to watch together by a complicated roster that includes making space for the third (oldest) child who is not always home/awake with them. And then watching them cry over an ice cream melting off the stick mere minutes later.

asynchronous much?

DD5: i am cleaning my room!
Me: nice - i thought you were doing your school reading.
DD5: oh, i will, but i am procrastinating by cleaning my room. at least it's productive procrastination!

ps - Madoosa, that is AWESOME collaboration. to include a person who isn't even in the room?? fantastic. stuff like this makes really me wish we'd had another, but then i look at her and think... uh, this one is enough!

...Within seconds of waking from a nap, your 2yo gives you a riddle you can't solve, then chuckles and tells you to keep guessing!

The riddle was: What creature is orange, friendly and not scary, and likes to meet new people?

Apparently it isn't any of the t-rexes or brachiosauruses from "Dinosaur Train", a tiger, a goldfish or tropical fish (clownfish or other), an oranguatang, or a howler monkey.

I'm now imagining a future 4yo DS making up riddles with physics or some obscure topic in them and me not even understanding the question!

ETA: After half an hour of puzzling, I solved the riddle. It was Dr. Seuss' Lorax!

You know you are raising a highly asynchronous gifted kid when....

A 5 minute bedtime conversation with DD 12 turns into a discussion on the meaning of the universe, time at the moment of the Big Bang, the roles of religion and science and whether there is crossover, String Theory, the nature of God and where thoughts come from. Then the next morning she bounces on your bed in her Pyjamas announcing she had her underwear on inside out and back to front all night and details the episode of Peppa Pig she has been watching on her Ipad.

Time to finally join this forum....

That's good advice, Portia. Be back soon...time to hit the books. (haha)

I don't even know where to put this....

DS7 is obsessed about black holes and what it would happen if you were to go into one and has been for quite some time. I got Neil DeGrasse Tyson's "Death By Black Hole" out of the library figuring that maybe I could have some more answers for him rather than having to rely on DH (it's more his thing). I read through the chapter with the same title and figured this was WAY over his head but offered to read it to him anyway for bed. We've since been reading a chapter a night and he BEGS for it. I figured it would lose it's charm after the black hole chapter but apparently not.

Last night we were reading about the big bang. DS then proceeded to launch into questions about what was there BEFORE the big bang? I'm not qualified for this and he's 7 (and he's not even PG like many of you guys deal with).

Another one for "you know you're a parent... when" - last month DS had to do a science project on an animal. What does he pick - Mantis Shrimp. Google True Facts Mantis Shrimp youtube - that's what started it.

you are teaching your DD4 to play cards and when you ask what she thinks clubs should be called she shouts "quatrefoil...pffftt...no it isn't a quatrefoil 'cuz it only has three lobes, I'm so silly!" And then she proceeds to play fall out of her chair and roll around on the floor like a bug laughing!

...you hear your 2yo mutter to himself, "My hypothesis was correct," as he plays.

LOL! Too cute! It is amazing how much vocabulary kids can absorb by osmosis and use correctly.