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Floridama I PM'd you.

Hi there!
I have an older DD8 and a DS3. DS3 is fascinated with numbers. We recently took a long car trip and he kept himself amused with a calculator for most of the ride. He also loves planets and the solar system. Tonight I had to look up where the dwarf planets Ceres and Eris are located so he can include them when he lists the planets in order (if anyone's interested, Ceres comes after Mars and Eris is out past Pluto). His favorite toy is the Quadrilla marble run and he likes to invent his own structures.

He'll be starting at a Montessori preschool this fall, and I hope they can keep up with him.

Hello-

New gal here with two dds. We believe dd3 is at least moderately gifted...I'm comfortable at putting her on a lower level 2 on Dr Ruf's levels of giftedness. She will be starting PreK/K at home on August 31st. Her writing skills are definitely at a 3 year, 3 month level but she is at a mid-K level with everything else.

She definitely keeps me on my toes and constantly surprises me with stuff that she knows (on her own) and remembers!!

Baby dd just started pulling herself up to standing! She is very alert and active....needs constant action and stimulation!! She is a spit fire too!

I posted this in another post but I am still having trouble believing that not all kids are "advanced". How did anyone else deal with this? It's just so normal to me!

PS...to those with HG kids...I give you huge PROPS because I can barely keep up with my dd!! I can't imagine having a HG kiddo!

Welcome!!!!!

Wow, calculator is a great idea! Isn't is amazing how much we learn because of our DC. I can recognize few dinosaurs because of DD2.



I'm still not dealing with it I keep on reading about gifted kids and when ever I find one who did something more or younger than DD I'm telling myself "See, she's not gifted, just bit advanced". On Ruf's scales I place her somewhere above 2, less than 5. Does her book go into more details about the scaling, than what is usually shown on web? It does not help that I'm pretty sure DD's BFF is gifted. She has quite a vocabulary and both of her parents are gifted. I'm also struggling with the fact that DD is also very athletic. Ppl tell me daily, she will be a gymnast. At 2 she can do things I can not! If she sees big kids doing something at the park, she will go, try and succeed. Her being advanced academically would be easier to accept if she would be more normal (or behind) in something else.

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On Ruf's scales I place her somewhere above 2, less than 5. Does her book go into more details about the scaling, than what is usually shown on web?
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Yes, the book gives a much more detailed description of each level along with examples of different children at each level. Plus a summary....the book is how I comfortably put my dd at a lower level 2.

LOL, it's quite normal to question it at times. DS5 is clearly a PG kid and meets the criteria for those level 5 kids...but he still does stuff sometimes that makes you wonder, because they are still kids (like putting his pants on backwards, not paying attention at times). Most recently we were at a house on a lake with some friends/family for the weekend and we asked DS5 a few times if he wanted to go out on the boat. Everytime we asked him he would say "what boat?" after he had clearly seen it. He even said "what boat?" after he had been on it. Clearly not paying attention. I will say that having him tested confirmed what I already knew...but I will also say that I would not at all have had him tested that young if I didn't think that we needed to do it for school.

oli - I've had gifted denial for almost 6 years now... and even though I'm excited about my DS5.5 possibly being whole grade accelerated, I still often find things that make me think twice - whether it be his attitude, or the way he responds to something or like shellymos said with not paying attention to what we'd think as obvious.

And don't even ask me to "label" DD3.5! She can't read, and she doesn't seem quite as advanced as DS5.5 did at her age, but if I start trying to, then I'll talk myself out of putting her anywhere!