Hi. My 23 month old ds is very bright. I know all parents think their own child is the best but comments by a whole range of people are leading me to belive my son is a bit gifted and I'm wondering about how to approach this. My knowledge on pre-school development is standard (my dd is 4 and a slightly above average child in terms of ability), I have a secondary teaching background so did do some child psychology, but that was 10 years ago.
DS can speak joing 7 or 8 words together, recognise all shapes including pentagon, hexagon, knows all colours even silver and gold, recognises numbers 1-10 and counts up to 16, recognises some letters, these are just some examples. He's a sociable and emotional boy so I doubt he's on the autistic spectrum. I'm just wondering how does one deal with this? Pre-school won'ttake him until he's of a certain age, it's getting harder to entertain him and whilst I don't want to limit him I don't want to push him to the extreme either. thoughts greatly appreciated...
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