S/O: If your kid is truly gifted, what could they do at a young age that made you suspect it?

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Anonymous wrote:Also, I am curious to know if there are any patterns with temperament, sleep, and how parents balanced this constant need for stimulation.

My very high IQ child never needed outside stimulation. He will find something interesting or to explore anywhere. He’s never been bored. He has a very loving temperament but has never needed a lot of sleep.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought DS was gifted. He taught himself how to play chess at age 4. He could add and subtract double digits in his head at also at 4. He taught himself how to multiply and divide in kindergarten. He could easily find patterns in number sequences and sports plays. He’s now 10 and definitely not gifted. He is in a gifted magnet program but he doesn’t focus. He misses so much instruction because he seems zoned out. He makes careless mistakes in math, especially with word problems. He did really well on the CoGat but abysmal on the MAP tests. So kids may seem bright early but the rest of the kids catch up and suddenly they are no longer outliers.

I would have him evaluated for ADHD. Something isn’t right here.

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When my kid was 18 months old, her daycare teacher was a retired Kindergarten teacher. She told us DD was absolutely ready to start K already.

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Anonymous wrote:When my kid was 18 months old, her daycare teacher was a retired Kindergarten teacher. She told us DD was absolutely ready to start K already.

LOOOOLOLOLOLOL

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Anonymous wrote:Also, I am curious to know if there are any patterns with temperament, sleep, and how parents balanced this constant need for stimulation.

My very high IQ child never needed outside stimulation. He will find something interesting or to explore anywhere. He’s never been bored. He has a very loving temperament but has never needed a lot of sleep.

+1. Very gifted people are never bored. My genius friend said she doesn’t even understand what “feeling bored” means because, as she says, she can always think.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, I am curious to know if there are any patterns with temperament, sleep, and how parents balanced this constant need for stimulation.

My very high IQ child never needed outside stimulation. He will find something interesting or to explore anywhere. He’s never been bored. He has a very loving temperament but has never needed a lot of sleep.

+1. Very gifted people are never bored. My genius friend said she doesn’t even understand what “feeling bored” means because, as she says, she can always think.

I tested pretty gifted as a kid (don't know the numbers my mom said "99.9th %ile" but I don't know on what) and have 1 kid who is profoundly gifted and others who are more in the run of the mill gifted category and in the average category. I'm also a teacher. This all to say I know lots of kids.

I think that boredom is personality. Some kids get bored quickly. Some kids can get lost in their head for hours and not even notice what's going on around them. Some are in between. I've seen kids in both categories at both ends of the IQ range.

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Anonymous wrote:When my kid was 18 months old, her daycare teacher was a retired Kindergarten teacher. She told us DD was absolutely ready to start K already.

LOOOOLOLOLOLOL

Don't worry. She stayed in preschool untill she turned 5. She was reading chapter books etc by then and is at a top college.

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Kindergarten teacher said raise your hand, do you want a party or a math test. DD voted math test. Later years she did math problems, well more like math puzzles in her spare time. Would always rather work on math than anything else.

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Upon birth, my dd rolled over. As soon as she was on the cleaning table. I am not joking. Let's see who can beat that!

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I'm going to be "that mom" about this. I had tested extremely high IQ when I was young, multiple Ivy, multiple grad degrees. My DS was so delayed he was evaluated for early intervention and qualified for EVERYTHING. At age 4 it was clear he would not do well on entrance interviews where I lived so I moved to a good public school district and had an IEP from the beginning. By third grade he scored 99.9 percentage -- off the curve completely on all subtests of the WISC V. I'm not even sure how that happened.

I had not expected this at all - I even probably posted on DCUM when he was younger about all of this. He did have smart sense of humor at a young age. But, yeah, no signs of being advanced otherwise. AT ALL. Some of his therapists said they thought he was a "little observer."

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I just posted above - there was one incident where he watched video about a kid naming his 200+ Thomas train collection and my DS memorized it and said all of them in order by memory. It took him 20 minutes or more and he would have to finish before he could start his daycare routine. We had a specialist consider that in the comp evaluation. No spectrum issues. Just weird.

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Anonymous wrote:I just posted above - there was one incident where he watched video about a kid naming his 200+ Thomas train collection and my DS memorized it and said all of them in order by memory. It took him 20 minutes or more and he would have to finish before he could start his daycare routine. We had a specialist consider that in the comp evaluation. No spectrum issues. Just weird.

That's crazy. How old was he when he did this?

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Anonymous wrote:Upon birth, my dd rolled over. As soon as she was on the cleaning table. I am not joking. Let's see who can beat that!

My BIL did that too. He’s incredibly athletic. Is your DD the same?

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Anonymous wrote:Upon birth, my dd rolled over. As soon as she was on the cleaning table. I am not joking. Let's see who can beat that!

My BIL did that too. He’s incredibly athletic. Is your DD the same?

Yes. Both of my kids are very athletic. Of course, I was joking about "beat that." But, rolling over is 100% true. We could not leave her on a huge bed even at week old. She was scooting down like a snake. Walked holding onto furniture at, or even before 6 months old. When she was not even a year old she could go to Mc structures really high up without any problems. People looked at me like I am the worst mother in the world. Flier on the cheer team, ice skater twirling around...I am a bookish kind of person, but wiry. She is pretty smart too, but very active. Life is never boring.

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When my at-the-time 3 year old used the word “ragamuffin” correctly in a sentence. I have no idea where she even heard the word. And at 6 told me she thought the French word Stylo had the same root as an Egyptian stylus. She is not PG, but definitely gifted. She is particularly gifted in her use of language (she started writing profusely at 8) and ability to make connections between diverse topics. She also has ADHD.

Sadly she does not share my love of mathematics. In math she is average (but with a tiger mom who makes her work hard anyway.)

Her sister did none of these things and is likely closer to average.