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Typical insecure, jealous, response. I don't have kids gifted in math, but I have one who does music competitions and another who had a college-level reading comprehension in elementary school. Your comments are ignorant and do not apply to children who really need the challenge. Please realize there are all types of learners out there, and those who are outside the norm need outside-the-norm activities.

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Hi PP, would you please explain habits of your child who likes to compete in reading comprehension? [/quote]

Ha! No, I wrote that he just developed a high-level reading comprehension early on. He does not have a competitive bone in his body, unlike my other kids, but is just addicted to reading, like me. You'll notice that many contemporary books written for children have really basic sentence structure and lack variety in vocabulary. When I realized he loved to read and would read anything I gave him, I started introducing some classic children's (or adult) literature, which has more complex sentence structure and richer vocabulary. I think that helped. He also liked immunology and read my old college textbooks on that at one point, before getting into history and ancient civilization. He's an intellectual soul.

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