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?

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!

Our 5 year old is clever and has differentinterests from me, though not particularly studious at the moment. The way I answer big questions is two things 1. Buy books that answer it. 2. Say I'll get you an answer and read up on it. I think its useful for them to see no one knows everything but we can go away and find out. When he's older we can learn together.