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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The "two is more than one" negotiations struck me.  My nephew, who is extremely bright in math at at an Ivy now, did that at around the same age (Pointing to his two grandfathers together for the first time and said "Two Papas!".  Anyone can memorize numbers in sequence but what your charge and my nephew did make them exceptional.  My nephew is not a genius, btw, but he certainly amazing at math.

Keep doing what you are doing, Nanny.  She didn't learn in a vacuum so either you or her parents or both are doing something right.   [/quote]

Is it really that exceptional? My now 3 year old was verbally delayed. We had him evaluated by the county at 18 months. As part of the evaluation, they asked him to pick up and give the evaluator 1 play fruit, then 2 play fruits. He did, and no one was that impressed because it should be pretty standard around that age, or so we were told. Babies understand the "more" concept pretty early! I think applying the sequence is more sophisticated. So anyone can recite 1 2 3 4, but when you ask a 2 year old how hold he'll be on his next birthday, and then the next birthday after that, and he answers those questions correctly -- that's a bit more sophisticated. Still doesn't tell you much about overall intelligence though.

But of course any individual example isn't illuminating; you have to look at the kid. There's a girl in my son's day care who is clearly off the charts advanced and has been since she was about 12 months old, when the teachers would take turns amusing themselves seeing how much she understood. Like at 12 months she could crawl over and bring back the red sponge versus the blue sponge upon request, or two sponges instead of one. At 12 months that's pretty insane. Now she is 3.5 and sounds like a 6 or 7 year old when she talks, in terms of her vocabulary and sentence structure and topics/depth of conversation. If she doesn't turn out to be gifted, I'll be astonished.[/quote]

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