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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My younger DD is much, much brighter than her dad or I. And both of us are very intellectually-inclined people who did well in school (good GPAs, grad school degrees, etc.). Therefore, if you are correct, she was probably swapped in the hospital.[/quote]

I'm the OP and I'm not the one who thinks that straight IQ is subject to reversion to the mean -  so no, I think you and your DH should have expected a very bright daughter.   [/quote]

We hoped for very bright, but knew very bright people who had average or below children so we didn't [i]expect[/i] anything. We were not prepared for "Oh, crap, she's clearly already a lot smarter than us." by pre-school.[/quote]

Your preschooler is smarter than you are?  That is very odd. [/quote]

It IS odd. And a bit stressful. Clearly she isn't more educated, but it was evident by age 3 that she learned extremely fast with virtually no repetition and wasn't just parroting things back. She's in ES now and far advanced of where we were in middle school.[/quote]

I feel the same way about my 4 year old.  I was advanced at 4 too (yay to read that it is inherited from me!), but he is years ahead of where was in reading and math.  It IS stressful and worrying to be honest.  On the one hand I'm proud of him, on the other it causes me a lot of anxiety about what the future will bring.[/quote]

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