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Anyone elses kid do this?...DD is 3.2, but has been doing this since she was 2....it has just gotten even more intense.

So every morning, I am awaken by my crazy peanut with questions. These questions continue all day..... but mainly consist of definitions.

I wish I knew how her brain works...from the outside it seems that words must be randomly floating through her head and she spouts them out seeking meanings. Some of these words I know where she heard, from a book we read a month ago, from a show she watched 2 weeks ago, from a statement I made the day before....others I have no clue. Sometimes she can tell me where she heard it, other times she says "I don't know" when asked.

Here is a list of words that she asked for definitions of...these are JUST from today!

-Resolve
-Angered
-Dissolve
-College
-Consequences
-Perfect
-Early
-Grip
-Explore
-Succulent
-Suffocate
-Fresh
-Refreshment
-Beveled
-Erroneous
-Shuck
-Terminate
-Alert

Some pretty huge words. This is all day long, when she is coloring and I am busy cleaning or cooking, outside when she is playing ball, riding in the car....All completely out of the blue.

I am thinking this is probably one of the ways her profoundly gifted brain works differently. I remember first noticing this when she was about 2 and she was working on a puzzle and I was reading a book on the couch. She looked up from her puzzle and asked "What does fancy mean?"
I get some words...but her need to know Erroneous, Beveled, etc....that just blows me away.

Lovely!
Perhaps it would be fun to see if she is interested in reading or being read to some vocabulary books ( at the proper level of course )

Some books talk about the Latin and Greek roots of words.

Of maybe she just wants to know the meanings of words she found herself.

What happen when you say:
"I make up a great sentence with that word, and then you try to guess the meaning, ok?"

That might save wear and tear on your brain, yes?

Smiles,
Grinity

LOL, amazedmom , you are always going to be on your toes with your little one, she sounds wonderful -- I went to the store purchased "Scholastic Children's Dictionary" and told dd's to look it up. I also started doing a "word of the day" (always ends up being more) where I would pick a word and have each of them pick a word and go over the definitions. They are 5 & 7 now and still enjoy doing this, just not everyday now.

Have fun :-) My DS had a phase when he seemed to be interested in the very concept of definition - e.g. he'd ask "what's a bus?" when we'd just got off one, and what he wanted was a dictionary-style definition. He also used to make up words, tell us their definitions, and quiz us later!

LOVE THAT COLINSMUM!

Ahhhh, yes. I stopped putting the dictionary away at the end of the day. It now sits on my little "calendar desk" for easy access.

My son also pops out random word questions like that, but not quite like that. That's pretty extraordinary. Where on earth she's heard words like 'erroneous' and 'shuck' in the same day I'm sure you're left wondering.

My kid will ask a word definition and then use it in conversation as soon as he finds the opportunity. Don't know if there's any way to parlay the interest into a challenge for your girl to lower the repeat rate slightly. I know how exhausting the relentless interrogation (in the cutest possible way) can be.

One of my DS's line of questioning I find quite tricky, as they seem to be designed as trick questions, is along the lines of "What does "have" sound like without the "E"?"

"Um...have."

Sometimes his questions seem unrelated to anything, (How long does it take to get better from diarrhea? Is infinity a prime number? Why did you put your finger in your nose?).

Me: "These are great questions for the morning, it's time to sleep now."

Zanzi

Your son sounds wonderful!! Such a smart cookie

I have a son very similar like yours, almost 4 and 1/2
very into math and music(piano), great memory for numbers and notes...etc

I have not get him tested yet,but he is GT for sure.

Please update your son more often, cause I like to read the stories about him:-)

I so wish our girls could play together. Mine is the same way. By the way, you are putting "profoundly gifted" in your posts--did you get her tested or are you just stating the obvious? LOL

ROFL - my son very much had a stage like this. It drove me nuts at the time, but thinking back to it I have to laugh! He often asked for his definitions while we were riding in the car. Colinsmom - that was EXACTLY my kid too. Dictionary style definition needed of the obvious and the not so obvious.

Luckily he grew out of it. And his sister never seemed quite as bad, but I think she also could bounce things off her intense brother. It took the heat off of me a bit.

I don't have any great advice! I just kept answering the questions. That was an intense year.