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[quote=Anonymous]That kid is probably not smart or bright, but most likely is gifted within the similar IQ range as your husband. With your husband's experience, what you need to do for your kid is try to find him a few intellectual peers, perhaps look into moving near good programs for gifted students - not smart ones, and educate yourself about giftedness.

Don't wait for the educational system to test him at the same time they get everyone. Get him tested privately in a year or two or three, but don't wait until here's 6 years old and bored and maladapted to his environment, has already caught a couple of bad habits from being an outlier, and his traditional school tells you tit-for-tat "you say he's gifted but he won't finish assignments and does [unwanted behavior x]".

If he's currently fascinated with space, do offer him more information on it. It's his fascination so you wouldn't be pushing anything, but following his lead. Age-appropriateness is simply not relevant, and it rarely is anyway, even with non-gifted kids. Take him to the library, and look through kids books on space with him.

Reading is a tricky issue. Because he is so eager for facts and info, you know he'll just take off and be able to feed himself what he's craving as soon as he's reading. You probably suspect he would learn to read quickly if you tried. There is no amount of tiger mommying that will get most bright children to learn to read at two, or the pressure and the work it would require are unnatural and likely harmful. But it is likely your boy will read long before his peers, so once he knows all his letter sounds, it won't hurt to try.[/quote]

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