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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FWIW, all three 4 year olds on my block in NW DC (including my child) scored at the 99% on the WPPSI.  Same goes for my child's 2 best friends at preschool.   Sure the kids are all bright.  But geniuses?  No signs of it that I can see.  I honestly see very little (if any) differences between them and any other 4 year olds I've ever known.  I honestly was shocked when my kid's score came back so high. (but I'll certainly take it!)

I would question those results  if you truly don't notice anything a little different about your kid. Unless , of course, they are your first or only and you don't get out in general population very much and so lack perspective. A typical 4 year old with a 98% ile or 99% on WIPPSI will pretty much get everyone's attention wherever he goes with his/her long detailed monologue, sharp observations, high degree of sensitivity or just by reading newspaper out loud while waiting for the flight to board at the airport kind of thing.....this is every day type of experience with these kids. Even if you get used to it, go to the play ground or the store and you will get at least a few raised eye brows. Also a 6 year old who regularly talks 35 year old Ivy League Grads into a corner is a dead give away.
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I'm the poster with the 99% kid on the block of all 99% 4 year olds.  I can assure you that none of these kids would get anyone's attention in public because of their shear brilliance.  None of these 4 year olds are reading.  None are doing advanced math (or any math).  One is a dinosaur expert.  Another (my child) is a whiz with Legos.  A third is a fanatic about art projects.  That's about it.

And I can tell you that my 99% child is adequately stimulated in our NW DC preschool.  He he is squarely in the middle of the pack and does not require any special enrichment. [/quote]

I generally agree with your observations--but some kids do pick up stuff faster and I am not sure if this is always correlated to IQ.  My childhood friend could read at 3 and she tested high (140s) on childhood IQ tests (she is still brilliant).  My son tested at 125 at age 3.5 yrs old (he will be 4 next month), so no genius and not 98%+ but he started to read, is advanced in math and other concepts that other preschool children in his class don't get yet.  He is at the top of his class in the charter school literacy, math and social science curriculum.  In the car last night I asked him where we lived (our address for safety reasons) and he answered but kept going telling me that we are in the northern hemisphere, North America and talked about Canada, US and Mexico.  I don't know if this will continue or if things will even out with time, but his teachers have tested him using various educational assessment/instruments and he is consistently high.  Maybe the WPPSI test wasn't accurate or it doesn't test these type of abilities?  As for the OP, just keep reading, playing word, card, board games, visiting cultural institutions, cook with your child (my husband cooks with my son and he has learned a lot about math in this context), talk about his/her observations about the world.   You would be surprised by how much a child can learn about math, colors playing UNO or Connect Four at an early age and it can be fun for adults too! [/quote]

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