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This is exactly how I would describe my daughter. I have no clue if she is truly gifted. Of course I think she is, she's my kid! She's not 3 so actual testing is out of the question but compared to others her age and older she is a little advanced but because of these emotions, so much more difficult. How are you dealing & and handling your child? Help!!!!

We used to play sleeping games, too.

Now, we tell Mr W that he hurts our feelings when he does this. It works much better than anything else we can say.

He is so sensitive that once we tell him something like this, he will burst into tears and tell us "It will be ok." and then we have to spend 10 minutes calming HIM down.

So we use it sparingly.

He is a very light sleeper and recently had issues sleeping in his room, so I slept in there and sure enough, the heater in the attic makes loud noises and his ceiling fan has developed a bad bearing.

That's actually a great point. DD won't sleep in a room with ANY shadows. We have some blinds that prevent pretty much all light from getting in but if we forget to put them down she'll freak out about the shadows. Everything has to be absolutely just so or we're in for trouble!

Hmph. Just read this thread now. I'm scared of the terrible twos. Guess that's why I've been ignoring it, really

DS has been having such a "golden era" with behavior. And he's about to turn two...

On sleeping rooms... at one point, DS woke up screaming "red" over and over. After quite a wild goose chase, he calmed down enought to go and stand pointing at an alarm clock in another room with BLUE numbers. Making the switch about halved his nighttime wake-ups, permanantly (not that it's no longer a problem, he was waking every 20 min at the time)

Anyway, that was about -2 cents, right?
-Mich
(who should not really be allowed to post publicly as self-therapy.)

So I have two kids, DD13 who at two was hard but one could reason with her. There was a kid in our play group who the mother could not reason with. I thought ohhh its that mother shes not doing blah blah... Anyways I get to put my foot in my mouth cuz now I have a DD2 who does not reason.... She runs off. I never thought I would do it...but I have a leash for her. I use it when we are in airports or other busy places and I can not keep my focus on her. She ran once in an airport...crawled under the bathroom door... I also have the rules that she has to hold my hand etc. but the leash gives me that little bit of security in places where attention can be drawn away.

The other day we were at a party. I got to see the Nurtured Heart theory in action. There was a sensitive 2 year old who we know. My DD2 kept taking a toy out of her hand to watch the 2 year old's reaction. It was so obvious what she was doing. She had no interest in the toy itself but the two year's old reaction was definitely her toy. I guess I will keep reading the book.

Honey, if you are waking up with him, even if it's every 40 minutes, you most certianly allowed to post as self-therapy. It is public, but that's why we use usernames!

((wink))
Grinity

LOLROTF - Thank Goodness I found you in time! Can you imagine if you found about about NHA at age 12 instead of age 2?
Remember, that as advanced as these kids are in many ways, it's hard at age 2 to realize that other kids have souls. Espeically by watching how mechanistically most ND 2 year olds behave.
I think this is around the time I had to start saying: "We don't break our friends."
Love and More Love,
Grinity

Ohhh my 12 and playing the emotional response game would be pretty nasty. One of the things I am curious about is if this relates to LOG at all? I am curious how my kids are going to compare. Granted I do not even know if my youngest is Gifted...but I imagine from the things she is doing that she will be. I am kind of dreading the whole school thing, but I do feel a bit more prepared than with the first.