is knitting gifted behavior for a 7-yo?

[Anonymous]

saw a girl busy knitting at a gas station waiting with her mom for an auto inspection. she almost did whole scarf in less than 30-min with four different colors and block patterns. i chatted up with her mom and learned she's only 7. she also speaks a foreign language fluently it appears.

me, i have a 7-yo boy and not for a million years would i dream my DS do something near that magnitude with his maturity or lack there of...

a teacher once said a gifted child has to 'produce' to be successful. i guess this little girl is producing alright.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely not

[Anonymous]

Sounds like she has great fine motor skills. I don't know that that qualifies as gifted though.

[Anonymous]

No. Our child was knitting at 4 and is not overly gifted.

[Anonymous]

No. It just means that someone taught her how to knit.

[Anonymous]

Gifted in knitting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:saw a girl busy knitting at a gas station waiting with her mom for an auto inspection. she almost did whole scarf in less than 30-min with four different colors and block patterns. i chatted up with her mom and learned she's only 7. she also speaks a foreign language fluently it appears.

me, i have a 7-yo boy and not for a million years would i dream my DS do something near that magnitude with his maturity or lack there of...

a teacher once said a gifted child has to 'produce' to be successful. i guess this little girl is producing alright.

No, your daughter is just crafty.

[Anonymous]

My 11 year old and 7 year old know how to knit. As does much of my family. In some European countries it is taught as part of the school curriculum from a young age. Knitting is a great skill to have, but definitely not an indicator of giftedness.

[Anonymous]

Knitting is taught in my much younger sister's Montessori school.

[Anonymous]

its a sign of gifted abilities (focus, patterns,etc) but being good at knitting is the equivalent of being good at chess and will not count in the AAP process.

[Anonymous]

Our embryos knitted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our embryos knitted.

Thank you. Posts like this keep me logging in to this forum.

[Anonymous]

Slightly off topic, but I recently read a blog that said that their daughter had started finger knitting at 4. I decided on Tuesday of this week to teach my 4 year olds to finger knit. While they are no more gifted than all the other kids on dcum, they do love finger knitting. I wouldn't have thought to do it with them for years, but I am so glad I did And they are both so proud of their scarfs they made themselves and working on more already.

[Anonymous]

I do find the "gifted" term confusing. Our DD was found to be "gifted" by way of the WISC, CogAT and NNAT. She's great at making up stories, is a decent artist, and does reasonably well in the AAP program. Still, I don't see that she particularly excels in any one thing, like chess (or knitting!). Is it the case that "gifted" is primarily referring to a person's ability to understand concepts? Again, she did great on the cognititive tests, but I wouldn't call her output exceptional.

[Anonymous]

Personally, I think it is a talent not just to be able to teach a child to do something like knitting or crocheting, but for the child to develop the interest in the first place. My kids had problems tying their shoes. I cannot imagine showing them how to crochet or knit.