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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know about elementary school yet but I have to stop myself from comparing my 3 year old to one particular girl in his class who is extraordinarily advanced. The other kids will be doing small shape puzzles and she'll be doing 50-piece jigsaws. Correctly and quickly. Or they'll be "studying" planets and most of the kids will just parrot the words (we're looking at planets and moon) while she will discourse on how you can tell the planets apart, how you get between them in a spaceship, what astronauts eat, etc. She's incredibly verbal, appears to be very physically coordinated, and is a sweet and compliant kid to boot. I am pretty sure she will turn out to be highly gifted at a minimum. I never see her parents so I don't have to hear them brag, but it's obvious from any interaction that she is worlds away from my own kid and I have to stop myself from thinking about it. I love my son tremendously but it's hard not to wonder what it's like to raise a child like that. Especially after I've told him to do something 5 times and he's ignored me. :)[/quote]

My DD may have looked like that to other parents in her 3yr old class but she was also a very late reader and refused to participate in any group extracurricular activities like sports, dance, etc. until late in ES when she took an interest in something on her own.    Some of her maturity was also because she was actually 4 for most of that class (just missed the grade cut off).  Every child poses challenges for their parents.  For me, letting go of some idea of what kids are supposed to do in our UMC culture took a while.  When all the other kids are on soccer teams and going to dance class you can start to wonder why your kid can't just go along with it and would rather spend most of her time on her own studying reptiles and looking for bugs in the yard.  I greatly appreciate her strengths now but as a parent it was an adjustment.[/quote]

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