Is my baby gifted?

[Daddynotmummy84]

Hi all. First time poster, long time lurker.
With this being my first child, and the current issues making it difficult to compare my son to other babies development, I thought I'd ask for opinions here. A little of where my boy is at. He's 17 months, almoat outgrowing his 18-24 month clothes (bloody expensive). He can speak around 80 spoken words and 40ish in sign language. He's able to stack things really well (his best so far was 14 blocks). When it comes to puzzles etc he does the shapes in the slots really easy, same with the animal pizzles etc. Also, he only has to see you do something once, occasionally twice, and he can do it himself (within limits obviously). To this extent he now has to have his own tool kit and power drill out when I do DIY to do his own little project. He feeds himsel, helpa with food preparation, loads and unloads the washer and drier, even walks around picking up bits of rubbish to put in the bin or pulls the vaccum out and uses it (it's always on, the plug is behind a secure lock so he can't get to it. What I want to know, is this normal for a kid his age?
Oh, I feel I should mention he was crawling at 4 months, walking at 7 and a half months. At 9 months he wasn't speaking, other than the odd word, but could make 3 worded sentences with sign language.

It's very difficult to measure IQ in young children. There is a Wechsler that can be used from 6 but Mensa don't use it - they won't IQ test anyone under 10.5. I'd be sceptical of people telling me my child's IQ at primary school age.

I didn't say you are insane, I said any sane person can see that was a piss take. But if that wasn't clear, I am sorry. My English fails me a lot of times
Your post came across as if you thought I thought the guy playing the violin in the cradle really had done.
Anyway, it was all very subtle so maybe that's why there was a misunderstanding. There are also a lot of very subtle clues in the OP suggesting that it is also not true.

Never mind. Let's leave it there.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Trump managed to be president of the USA at 2 y.o. Your son needs to move his arse to catch up!

Thanks, scheffsm. Enjoy your weekend too.

Where’s the OP gone? Out giving DS a driving lesson?

She's supervising him during his Mandarin lesson on zoom.

You are both wrong, he's having a driving lesson in mandarin.

Trump managed to be president of the USA at 2 y.o

@aurynne yes but that's trump's iq not his age.

He might be or he might not be. He does sound like an awesome little boy though with his little tools and putting rubbish away.

Their mental and emotional development (like their physical development) has spurts and pauses so who knows how he'll end up. As long as the important things like kindness and caring for others continue to develop, the rest isn't that important. This is such a lovely age when they're not quite a baby any more and their little personalities and quirks are starting to come out; enjoy it .

Also (and I mean this kindly) all children are gifted in their own way. The tragedy is some times we never see it because we only put value on certain gifts.

Just live him for who he is.
Sounds great that he can do housework. My 13 year old has only just acquainted herself with the Hoover.

Love

Oh to have an edit function

Old Chinese proverb: there's only one perfect child, and every mother has it.

Ahhh this post made me cringe

I was a gifted & talented child, to the point where I still have a little official certificate saying so. That was in primary school. By the end of secondary school I was barely just on the higher end of average (in top sets for all subjects but only got As and Bs in my GCSEs, compared to classmates who got all As and A*s)

I have friends who were very much average at primary but have gone on to do great things.

I was told I was g&t and pressured to achieve highly. I left school with no qualifications, never went to university and didn't achieve anything academic at all. It can be a dangerous label,

I can’t see why his clothes size would have anything to do with being gifted but he sounds quite normal to me. My second son walked and talked early and had really good motor skills. He is now in his 20’s and has still yet to win a gold medal at the Olympics, write his first symphony, design and pilot his own rocket to mars or invent the cure for cancer.

Yes. Your baby is totally gifted. Enjoy!

I was slow but 32 years later, I've finished my masters, I work as a Marketing Manager in the tech industry (well known company) and doing pretty well. All my peers (friends, cousins etc where their parents would brag about this) who were gifted are now..well let's just say doing nothing with their lives.

So long story short, no one asks about your milestones or if you were ahead or not when you were a baby but in the future, they would look at your qualifications, your experience and how well you can do the job or what you can bring to that job and most importantly your personality.

If you start injecting your child "the genius" label from a young age, from my own experience it's always been those so called genius kids have been the first to fail.

Btw, my brother used to use his shoes as a spoon to eat his lunch at school when he was 6 and just generally did stupid stuff but now he works at Air Traffic Control, has his own little family and has finished paying off his mortgage. That's a genius I think!