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[quote=Anonymous]I can’t tell with my 4.5 year old. She seems precocious, but not super intellectual if that makes sense. For example, she asked me to teach her to read, so we are and she’s sounding out words and getting pretty good pretty quickly. So smart, right? But still sounds out “and” every. time. and cannot remember “the” for the life of her. I can’t imagine she’ll end up gifted if she can’t remember “the” after reading it 50 times in the last few weeks? Her speech is still decently immature (she’ll say “my mom is learning me to read” instead of “reading me” and makes a lot of mistakes with past and future tenses still). So I think I realized she wouldn’t be as smart as I was as a kid when she started really learning things and didn’t pick them up immediately or after being reminded once. Maybe 2.5 or 3 years old?

But I think her eagerness to learn and persistence are equally or more valuable than raw intellect, so we focus on teaching those things while we cover the same fact for the hundredth time. [/quote]

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