To think DD may be gifted?

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DD has always been developmentally fast but tonight she has shocked me.

DD is 12 months old and has sat on the floor and emptied a tin of 25 sharpies. She then proceeds to put all the sharpies back in the tin but deliberately putting them colour lid up. She's turning the pens in her hand the right way up and when she puts one upside down, she pulls it out and puts it the right way up.

I'm

Very good concentration and perseverance, very sweet and busy. She sounds lovely. Now take away the Sharpies or you'll be sorry :)
Don't be so unkind, some of you.

Yeah mine would have done that at that age. They've both just finished their doctorates.

Meh.

"Look at my willy light!!"
Best laugh on here all week! [grins]

Dear god, stop yourself, you sound daft as lights 😂 I'm sure she's a bright baby, but why on earth have you come on here to boast about either relatively normal achievements or achievements which are blatantly exaggerated. Just enjoy. It goes by so incredibly fast.

Literally no one cares about you PFB delusions. Please don't be that parent
Your DC won't thank you when her friends parents avoid you like the plague.

Cheers MNHQ for deleting my post which didn't actually contravene your guidelines.

Perhaps I should politely paraphrase and ask people to be a bit nicer to the OP.

Whether she is gifted or not, just encourage her as much as you can with reading. Go to the library every week and read to her every day. It is a lot of work but, whatever her ability level, being a keen reader will help her maximize her potential.

For what it's worth, my 15yo DD has been classed as 'gifted and talented' by the school. I never knew until she was in y7 and got top marks on all the tests. She reads about 5 books a week in school holidays and about 2 or 3 in term time. She excels at all subjects - science, maths, English, history etc. I don't think her marks would be nearly so brilliant if she do all that reading.

Bluntness to be fair my daughter (now 2.5) has been able to hold a pen/pencil correctly and scribble with it since about 18 months. The nursery remarked on it, but I didn't think it was that big a deal. She loves to draw, spends a lot of time doing it and we've been doing some numbers too. She can follow the dotted lines in the book pretty well to make the numbers.

She's bright for sure, but I wouldn't say gifted or extraordinary. Well she is to me, but you know what I mean.

purple I saw your post. To be clear, I didn't report.

Totally get where you're coming from in being supportive of the OP.
BUT.
You did call everyone on the thread bitches. HTH.

I have read somewhere with right encouragement, it's quite possible to bring up a child's IQ up to around 130, before age of 5. I think she has a potential.
How she turn out to be, only time will tell.

Love a gifted thread.

@Mellington. That made me properly have hysterical laughter.

OP,

(Head tilt) Aww bless,

Sincerely,
Every Mother with a child over 12 months old.

@SpareChangeDownTheSofa was just going to ask that.

Literally no one cares about you PFB delusions. Please don't be that parent
Your DC won't thank you when her friends parents avoid you like the plague

Proper ray of sunshine right there Christ.

@MummyJess123 jeez. So average. Mine did it in Latin.

I wish people wouldn't be nasty for the sake of it on here, fgs. It's just mean.

Sorry to burst your bubble but my DD could do similar things at that age and went on to fail her 11+ (but has achieved lots of other things to be proud of since then) It really is Too early to tell OP, just relax and enjoy her

INFP I think it is quite bitchy the way people are being so mean to the OP hence me using that term. Why can't people just be nice instead of taking the piss out of others.

But thing is, if your dc is highly able, you would know from quit early age.
There's difference to other children.
I always secretly thought my ds seemed cleverer compared to other children, and I was proved right later on, so you never know. You maybe delusional, but you maybe right.

Who lets a baby play with Sharpies?!?

Early signs of OCD?

Son talked at 8 months. My sister used to joke that he didn't need to walk cos he could tell me what he wanted (he didn't crawl til 12 months).

Played along with Countdown with magnetic letters on the fridge, making words at 17 months (remember cos we moved and the health visitor turned up while it was on).

I ignored it cos I knew what an ordeal it was being valued for your academic success. He got his GCSEs today - all he cares about is getting into 6th form (he has). No sign so far of his childhood 'giftedness' - but definite sign of how his concentration goes where his interest is, and a reflection of that in his exam results.

I can't see anything to be gained by getting her classified as gifted, and lots to lose.

My son is dyspraxic though, and he did get free revision books because of that (the entire extent of his support, despite his assessment as having special needs due to low tone etc). Special needs? Gifted? Labels that in my son's case I have found mostly un-useful.

Oh, and his early talking? He got very routine GCSEs in English :-D

OP, there are many thread on G&T board what's their dc were like as a baby/toddler. Have a look, and maybe you can compare with your dd.

Impossible to say at 12 months.

I ignored it cos I knew what an ordeal it was being valued for your academic success

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