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

‘What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.’

quoted from here

DS2, just turned 2 (one of twins) pulled his nappy to the side and peed all over the extension plug thing in our bedroom while I was at work and DH was changing DD2's nappy. He shorted the bloody house!

Boy has skillz (just relieved he didn't electrocute himself!)!

I thought DD1 was gifted but now I have 3 more I realise that all babies do amazing things you just have the time to notice it with your PFB

3 of my 6 children have been officialy "labelled" (it is a label and not always a helfpul one) as gifted.

I was told that despite them showing very advanced abilities at a young age it was impossible to tell for sure until they were well into school age as all children develop at different speeds when they are so little. Being gifted isnt usually an across the board thing either, it tends to be focussed on one area with them being well above average in other areas but not to the point of being gifted. DD2 and 3 are both classed as gifted in arts and humanities, with DS in maths and science (nice way to pander to gender expectations there kids!)

Give it time. Encourage and play and read wiht her, but dont put too much focus on labels at this stage, just allow both of you to enjoy her growing at her own pace. If she is extraodinary it will show in time :)

Please excuse my appalling ypos! I am missing a cerain working key on my keyboard so I have o go back and fill hem in wih he on screen keyboard! :o

Give her the car keys and ask her to pop down the shops for some milk!

My 3yo made a perfect sculpture of herself in Sudocrem when she was one. She used her own body as the canvas. She's the next Picasso the carpet certainly appreciated her pure talent

Never post a 'gifted' thread on mn.

You could have a four month old reciting the alphabet or a two year old writing poems and you'll be told that that's just fine and normal and so did my dc at that age

From what I remember of my older dcs at that age, when items tend to get scattered/thrown/sucked, that seems pretty forward to me tbh. It's not reliably indicative that she's gifted but definitely that she's bright and developing well and is fairly forward for her age

Didn't there used to be a gifted and talented section for parents of genii?
Scuse my grammar.

There aren't really very many truly gifted children.

Mozart was composing at 5 years old.

Today's gifted children gets A* grades and do ordinary jobs. Nothing particularly extraordinary about them when they reach adulthood.

My 12 mth old recreated the Sistine Chapel room by room in sand building (got the sand:water ratios just right) then cunningly used the Sharpies to paint the ceiling in

I like to think my second child is quite canny. She'll do well. My pfb needs work if he wants to retain the pfb status, even if he's got maths skillz - he's a bedwetter.

Unless your pfb is solving rubiks at 2, or working out why Trump is still in power, he's just above average. Which is nice. Enjoy it.

Oh OP, innocent enough post but MN ridicule fodder for some I'm afraid. Your child may well be, but you are not allowed to ponder such things on MN, the regulars don't like it. Enjoy your baby

At this age my niece would stack her stacking cups the do them in reverse, starting with the smallest and ending with the biggest.

Shape sorters etc she flew through.

She could complete small jigsaws (( 10 pieces or so )) completely by herself. She'd then take them apart and complete them upiside down, we all thought she was a genius.

19 years on she's profoundly Autistic and non verbal, she still loves jigsaws.

We have no idea who theyre going to be at this age, just enjoy the moment for what it is, which is a baby having fun.

I think until you have a child of your own you do not realise how much they learn and how quickly and at such varying paces.Just enjoy it,but the time they're teens they'll have learned how to grunt,by 18 may have worked out that clothes go in the basket not on the floor but you don't get a sticker for it.

Haven't we all been very kind,, for å gifted Aibu? all round

DH is an actual genius, a Professor who took all his exams early as a child. I can honestly say that being clever is great for people but being a genius is hard. I see the struggles of the people I class at that level that I have worked with over the years in higher education. There really aren't that many.

My middle son is a genius. He won't use a washing machine or work out how to fry an egg properly. Be careful what you wish for.

Lol she likes the colour part so she faces them to her. You may have a v smart child but at this age who cares?

Plus I could read by 2 but though intelligent I'm no Hawking lol

And my sister could walk at 11 mo ... she is a doctor though mind

I remember once reading that of course we all think our children are geniuses because it is absolutely amazing the amount they learn because birth and two years of age.

I'm often taken aback at what my four-year-old dgd can do, though I'm sure her teachers don't think she's anything special.

What's all this 'I walked at...' How's that an indication of anything? People are weird about milestones. Earlier isn't better.

Having had three teens l would rather they were gifted at putting things in order and tidying up than gifted at equations!! She sounds amazing.

These threads make me increasingly glad I'm not a mum. So some of you are more experienced mothers than others but why do you have to be so condescending, sanctimonious and downright nasty to first timers? I'd hate to meet you lot at a baby group.

I think if I've known MN when my ds was younger, I may have asked the same question and shot down straight away.
You can't be sure if a child is highly able or not from one episode. She may be, she may not be.
Why most of the posters are so sure the OP's dd is just average?
Sorting things is one thing my ds did early. He is very logical and good with patterns. OP's dd maybe the same.