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Intelligent toddler = intelligent children??

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tryingtobemarrypoppins2 · 25/04/2010 17:01

True or not??

I know that early walkers don't always go on to do everything else early, but what about those toddlers that can name all their colours/shapes etc by 2 and a bit etc??? Is there any evidence??

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maxybrown · 26/04/2010 09:12

I talk all of the time - we sing read everything, my DS still does not talk lol!

I agree, it doesn't equal happiness or riches and quite often intense intelligence can bring intense misery.

mintyfresh · 26/04/2010 11:24

Quite agree with Expat too...

DS was assessed at 3 yrs as G&T - very good speech, vocab, memory etc. Expected him to shine at school but is now very much struggling with all but his reading .

He is however, extremely good looking - isn't that all that counts in life these days?

BelleDameSansMerci · 26/04/2010 11:28

Girls are usually more talkative than boys at an early age though, aren't they maxy? snorkie I hope so but I don't like to assume that my DD is likely to be ahead of others, etc. I had a fairly easy time at school and I'd like her to enjoy learning and school as much as I did but I'm trying to remember that she's who she is and not who I was. Hard to explain very well but we're so similar that I often assume she'll just be like me which isn't fair on her really.

I do try to answer each endles "why?" with a full explanation but sometimes you end up with "because it just is". This morning's topic en route to nursery:

DD: Mummy, I can smell barbecue.

Me:

maxybrown · 26/04/2010 11:40

My DH very intelligent and knows things that he thinks are common knowledge to everyone - now he is a teacher, realises they are not!! He also has no idea how he knows some of the things he knows.

He hated school and was always being told he was behind in everything - especially reading, yet he was sat at home reading Lord Of the Rings age 7 - but school had him down as rather behind!
He then left when he was 14 and had no qualifications now a teacher!! So schooling also doesn't seem to mean much either if he is anything to go off!!
He just went and did a oad of courses that would enable him to go to university as an adult. He then won an award for best Russian student in the country in his 20's - having never touched a language or anything at all for that matter at school! He is not russuan btw lol!!

Him and his brother were proper outdoors, skive from school kind of kids - his brother is a translator and also very intelligent.

I am nothing like this I might add

snorkie · 26/04/2010 12:13

They do say that a high proportion of criminals are very bright, but being disaffected at school turned their minds to crime. So, being bright (whether or not you can tell this as a toddler) doesn't mean you will do well at school, but it should mean you have the capacity to.

CharlieBoo · 26/04/2010 12:32

Hahahaha Iove it monty fresh that did make me laugh out loud! Hehehe x

maxybrown · 26/04/2010 12:41

oh and just in case - my Husband is not a criminal either

bruffin · 26/04/2010 20:14

Ds 14 is usually referred to as highly intelligent/ or having a huge brain by his teachers. He didn't talk very early, but walked at 10 months. He was carting boxes around to stand on to reach kitchen surfaces before he was one years old. He always seemed to understand a lot from a young baby and was tested as having receptive languange of an adult at 5 although his vocabularly was only just over a year ahead.

He wasn't very advanced at counting out loud, but when he was still only about 8 or 9 months I remember him looking at some soft bricks we had. He looked at each one in turn as if he was counting them, then realised one was missing and started looking for it, the other brick was behind him. I could swear he was counting in his mind.

lovechoc · 26/04/2010 20:29

not all intelligent children go on to work in amazingly well paid jobs as adults. there are loads of intelligent children out there, but it's just a case of whether they choose to use their intelligence or not that makes all the difference.

DS is developing well so far at 3yo but who knows what he will be like as an adult - it will be up to him whether he chooses to use his loaf or not. You can't predict what they'll be like later on!! Montessori nursery or not.

Habbibu · 26/04/2010 20:36

Agree with Quattro, and I very much like "amount of chuckling" as a principal measure of a child's wellbeing.

maxybrown · 26/04/2010 20:39

Bruffin, you could be describing my DS.

Before he was two, he had done his own toast in the toaster - moved a chair over to reach toaster, got loaf, took out two slices, rolled bread bag back up, put bread in toaster and pushed it down. I was watching by the door....he just can't get into the fridge to butter it Not that I am proclaiming intelligence because of that before anyone jumps on me

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