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So I got my copy of Dr. Ruf's book yesterday evening and stayed up to midnight reading.....got halfway through LOL....okaym denial.....pretty much gone. I definitly still have some, but wow. Thank you all for recommending it.

DD is easily a level 3, possibly a 4. I say possibly because at only 2.5 a lot of the level 3 and 4 are similar....I was reading thisngs to dh and we both feel like what she does in the next year or two will shine further light on that. I can see her in many examples of the kids at both levels.

I knew DD was ahead.... but since she is our only it was hard to see just how far although other people told us like her ped and our children's librarian, it didn't really hit home until reading. And the part about that level 3's if left to progress at there on pace could complete all of elementery school work in 2 years just blew me away. I know DD has already mastered half of the end of year skills expected for my mom's schools K but wow.

Anyway. Thank you all for recommending this book, this definitly took me out of denial some, ut now I am ust a little freaked LOL.

Wow! how exciting. Start collecting work she does, video tape the amazing stuff, write down dates, age and what she can do.

Awesome!

(I guess I need to get the book and read it too)

I started doing this at 2...which I had started earlier, but I didn't realize until then that she was not average LOL.... I have a bnder now where I keep detailed records.

It was amazing reading the parts about the different children, so many of level 3 nd 4 where almost word for word things DD has said. I was reading them out loud to dh and he was floored.

I love it when I can finally find a book that perfectly describes my 'a normal all his own' kid!

Ummm, Amanda, you may want to revise your signature line...LOL!

LOL. It was the first book that I read that included the word "gifted" and it really opened up my eyes. I read it when DS was not quite 2. It was frightening to see that DS was probably a level 5 kid...but I still was in denial. I read little parts of it every year and was more and more shocked. Now 3 years later he has been tested and his results were consistent with what I had thought with reading the book. So while people say you can't really tell with a child that young, sometimes you can. He was a clear cut case. He did all those things early just like they did in the book. It is all quite interesting. And another interesting thing was when DS was 2 I would read about what these 4 year olds were doing and thought to myself "that is crazy...DS would never be able to do that stuff" and then DS started doing them even earlier. Anyhow, I am thankful for the book because it really opened my eyes and gave me more ideas, even if it did give me a little more to worry about as well. : )