Parenting a clever child

[BigCheese24]

Just wondering if anyone has any advice

My husband and I are clever enough people but not highly intelligent by any means. We both have degrees - mine in English lit and his in computer science. He's a computer programmer and I'm a banker (that's how useless an English degree is)

Anyway, our son is 6. And ever since he was about 2, it's been pointed out to us how "clever" he is. Could read and write before he started school. He can play chess and solve a Rubik's cube. He LOVES school, and absolutely loves learning. It just comes easy to him. He has a thirst for knowledge. And reading, writing and numbers just come so easy to him.

Now, I can appreciate how brilliant this is and of course I am so proud. But at the same time, sometimes I feel so out of my depth. He can ask such big questions that I have no idea what the answer is. And I have no idea how to play chess or solve a Rubik's cube. I don't want him growing up thinking his parents are stupid.

But my son is also really naive, because he's only 6. He has no idea that he's academically ahead of his peers or anyone else. He assumes everyone has the same thirst for learning he does.

I guess I just feel out of my depth as a mother. Can anyone offer any advice?

[markbrio]

support his interests and encourage him to explore them further. I don't thing you don't have to know everything, just learn alongside him. Connect him with resources, like <a data-nosnippet href="https://www.chessbazaar.com/chess-boards.html">chess boards</a> game clubs or online tutorials, to support his passions. Celebrate his successes and reassure him that intelligence comes in many forms. Don't worry about feeling out of your depth as parenting is a learning journey too.

[Username9898]

I don’t have any great advice but am following in case anyone else does as my 5 year old sounds very similar! He was also reading and writing before school and has continued to pick things up so quickly since starting reception. He loves listening to audio fact books (we have a yoto player) and just retains so much of the information. I always think he’d be great in a pub quiz 😂 Everyone thinks we’ve ’hot housed’ him (not helped by the fact that I’m a teacher…) but we really haven’t. He just loves learning things and remembers bloody everything!