what sort of signs do babies give away, that show they are advanced for their age?

[sourgrape]

[AitchTwoOh]

they compose twinkle twinkle little star

[MrsMattie]

PMSL

They refuse fruit shoots on the grounds that high sugar content can lead to Type 2 diabetes in later life ;-(

[givemehope]

They scream a lot (and your mother tells you they're G and T to make you feel better). Although, obviously, in the case of DS it was completely true. xx

[AdamAnt]

Communicate in morse code with their farts?

[VeniVidiVickiQV]

None, really.

Although talking when they emerge from your uterus is often considered advanced.

[MrsMattie]

Oh yes@givemehope - tantrumming brats (like my beloved DS) are always excused by loved ones on the grounds that they have a unusually high IQ and are easily bored. Bless grandmas :-)

[S1ur]

Ahhhh. penny drops.

(and super advanced 3 week old sprints over and scoops it up saying "mother, mother our currency is the foundation of our economy, do not drop it so lightly")

[EllbellTheBluestocking]

Dd2 emerged from my womb and promptly crapped all over her dad. I was pretty impressed, I can tell you!

[hunkermunker]

They say, "Ah, you must be Mummy Hunkermunker. Marvellous colostrum, excellent vintage. Have you come far?"

[keeplaughing]

gets up to be sick in the toilet all by themselves

[S1ur]

Hunker You have made me snort several times tonight! I would say you were on fire but wouldn't want to cause alarm

[JeremyVile]

DS took up pipe-smoking at 18 months and he frequently fires off letters to broadsheet editors starting 'Dear Sir, oh how I chortled....'

Oh yes, he's my pension, that boy....

[moondog]

They snack on olives and demand that you take out an annual subscription to The Spectator.

[hunkermunker]

Slur, I'm glad I'm amusing somebody else as well I think wine agrees with me

[margoandjerry]

thank the lord for this thread.

Have just read on another site that a child the same age as mine apparently burst into tears on reading a book because it was so moving. She is 15 months old.

[MrsMattie]

'Moving' my arse. Bet she had bad wind. or was just bored to fucking tears by Peter bloody Rabbit.

[S1ur]

Yes yes Hunker! I am considering setting up a wine delivery to your house at key times during the week just for my own (and your) amusement

[moondog]

V funny Hunker, yes indeedy.

[sourgrape]

[madamez]

They tell you they know their rights.

[sourgrape]

lol v good.
but what sort of things would you consider advanced?

[moondog]

There is no real correlation between babies doing stuff early and being brilliant later.
I'm a salt so pretty up on infant development.

[S1ur]

Yeah but you're not really serious are you now sourgrape.

Cos really that'd be a bit silly. This thread is much better.

so.

They deliver themselves and make the mw a bit of toast before she leaves.

[PeachesMcLean]

'scuse me. Can you lot choose 1 thread to post on, getting V confused here

[hunkermunker]

Make the midwife toast, Slur?

What about their poor lochia-exuding mother?

Ungrateful at such a young age Youth of today