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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP: I think you're a great mother and right to be proud. There are so many people on these boards that seem to delight in telling parents with smart/advanced kids that their kids are not really that smart/advanced and I really can't explain why they feel the need to do that except that they are just green with envy.[/quote]

NP here and I agree with this completely!

PP, be proud of your DD.  It's wonderful that she's reading so well, and that is a skill that will benefit her FOREVER.  I was an early reader (by age 4) and always had great comprehension skills and love to read to this day.  Often times on this board, people spew crap about how early readers hate reading later on in life, [b]or they don't understand what they're reading.[/b]  I really don't see that being true.[/quote]

I actually do think that some things can't be understood.  For example, my child could read the book I'm reading now, but she couldn't understand it in a way that the author intends.  The same could be true for literature that is too advanced for her for whatever reason.  For example, my child would have no concept of what the heck was going on in Are You There Got? It's Me Margaret though she could certainly read the content well enough.  I also don't know if my advanced reader would be able to truly understand a story about Anne Frank because one would, by necessity, have to have a basic understanding of World War II history in order to understand Anne's plight and why her diary is so meaningful.  There are many, many books she has read that I've thought to myself, this is the kind of book she should reread in a few years to get a different level of understanding out of it.  (She read a book on the underground railroad two years ago, which was a lovely, lovely book...but again, I don't think she could fully understand the historical aspect of it.)[/quote]

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