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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, there are thousands of books out there, but I think you should probably read Nurture Shock amongst others. Once you start fighting for your "smart" child, you're in a road to kill his internal motivation. I was gifted and college was a huge shock to me bc I had been the "smart kid" at my middling HS and never had to work hard. My husband wasn't gifted, but similar to the other PP a "hustler" from a low-income family and I would say he's more successful than I am. IF your kid is unusually bright, I agree you should be focusing on social skills, manners, and independence/internal motivation. My oldest is very curious and since he was 18 months has gone through phases of intense interest in space, firefighting, ice harvesting, etc. We just go to museums, borrow books from libraries - as long as they have pictures- provide a lot of props for imagining and he takes it as far as he wants. Especially if you SAH this should be straightforward. And sign him up for preschool. Don't do worksheets. [/quote]

we can't afford any preschools that are anything more than just daycares.[/quote]

This is ironic since full daycare costs me $1400 a month but before I went back to work our part time play based preschool was $280 a month. [/quote]

She has a misconception of daycare. Ours had well reputed preschools included. [/quote]

Yes, same. There's a library and computer lab and a curriculum for crying out loud. [/quote]

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