Intelligent 2 year old - WHAT CAN WE DO?

[DaddyWise]

I have been told by many people including a health visitor that my daughter is well above average in many aspect. She is 2y and 4m and in some aspects she is up there with 4 year olds. Obviously I want to harness this in a way that will be beneficial to her. Looking at Spanish lessons which could be a good start I think? Obviously there are lots of things I can do at home but would like to know of any clubs or organisations that can help her. Thought of the congnitive tests but not sure if they do those for a child so young? Would love your thoughts please. Looking for something around the Leeds area. Thank you :)

Or you could chill out and let her be a two year old. Just a thought!

Too young IMO for ed psych tests/classes/extension and so on.

I'd let her be herself, respond to her when it comes to activities and have lots of fun socially with other children her age. :)

From experience, I wouldn't do anything. Just go with the flow and don't worry. Some children level out, some don't. You don't need to get her tested either, what good will it do. Will it benefit her at all? Nope.

first child OP?

You know something's not right when your 2 year old is sitting on the bus with you and starts asking about the suspension. Even the gent sitting behind me had something to say about this. 'Bloody hell, what school does he go to. Eton?' Seriously, just don't worry about it.

ds is 2.8

today he said trousers.

i was proud.

HTH

follow your child's lead.

does she really need to learn spanish at 2?

if she is happy and healthy just doing regular 2 yr old things then leave her be.
but you know, if she shows interest in numbers and things like that then do numbers with her, if she asks questiosn about things then help her understand more about them

i don't think that testing and hothousing necessarily benefit a child, regardless of how gifted they are.

Is your child reading?
Is your child doing self taught maths?
Writing?
Reciting Shakespeare?

If not your child is possibly as bright as everyone else.

My child is not gifted but he taught himself, fuck knows how, all letters and number before he was 2.4 (well I think the itouch taught him) and he has been able to reason since 2yrs. BUT he is just bright not way brighter than everyone else.

Is this a wind up ?

If not

I presume this is your first child . Please just let her be 2 - she should be playing - not taking tests.

I suppose OP's DD will need the Spanish for her business trips. Chinese might be helpful too. Maybe she could also have a quicky shifty at my tax return if she's got some spare time....

lol... I'm surprised that you have much to do with the health visitor if your child's development is normal.

DD only had a development review aged two because she is exceptionally small. (Ie. 0.4th centile) She has very good fine motor skills and excellent speech, although I think she is normal.

When dd was 16 months old she got a black eye from running into our sideboard. She was wearing 3 to 6 month clothes and was able to speak in sentences. We got some quite nasty comments off the hospital doctor about dd size. The radiologist told us that he had never met a child who was so tiny who could speak in sentences and walk.

I can pretend my dainty dot of a daughter is gifted, even if in reality her development is normal. She is nearly three years old and still wearing 12 to 18 month old clothes.

Ds didn't have one Joy. He had one at 6 months, we didn't see the HV after this at all.

My children's two year checks were very basic. I didn't think they were meant to be assessing intelligence, but in any case my DS leaned too far into the toy boy and fell in head first so I'm guessing they didn't tick the genius box.

I'm going to go against the grain and say why not try languages? It's hardly a secret that the earlier you start, the easier they are and if her speech and reasoning are good what harm can it do? It's nice that the op wants to give her daughter every advantage. She may or may not be "gifted" - time will tell, but there's no need to be mean. Op, just read to her and talk to her a lot. It will become clear where HER interests lie and then you can provide the resources. But I would consider spanish a bit of fun for now. Mine at 3 & 4 love French. They aren't being hothoused, it's just interesting!

What type of club were you thinking about?

I remember my dd at 22 months telling the doctor that she couldn't breathe because her windpipe was full of phlegm. Doctor was a bit .

Some kids are just very good with language from an early age, and this always attracts comments from other people. It's very easy to be seduced into thinking your child is a genius, but the early development It may or may not translate into "giftedness" at a later age.

OP, your child is two. TWO!!! Let her be a little kid, for goodness sake! Teach her Spanish if you want to, but do it because it's a fun thing to do, not because you think she is the next Einstein!

What yousank said

I regularly dropped into the HV clinic when dd was younger, we never had a 2 year check. However, the HV often made comments on dd's language skills etc, so don't find that aspect of the op weird. But we were in a rural area and HV had plenty of time for us - very different from the experience of friends who live in London etc.

My DS had a 2.5 year check with HV. He was assessed by her as performing at the level of an average 4-5 year old.

I was also told not to expect him to be particularly special compared to other kids once he started school as it's not unusual for 2.5 year olds to be at this level.

He is doing very well at school ( now in year 1) . He is in the top 5 out of a class of 30 but is not the brightest kid in the class. I'm more than happy with that and more importantly so is he.

Never saw the need to start giving him Spanish lessons!

I once made the big mistake of describing him as very bright to someone at a party who was asking how we was doing at school. The person I was talking to then went on to tell me the things her reception year DS was able to do ( like knowing the names of all the dinosaurs and being able to spell the names correctly )

It was quite clear that her son was very gifted and mine was just fairly bright!

I learned a valuable lesson.

I would only do Spanish if you speak the language and can talk to her. I would just enjoy having a 2 year old-there are lots of fun activities you can do.

Mys DS2 is very verbal and was so at a young age - he is able to communicate easily. Now at 3 he is picking up Jolly phonics from his older brother.

He is emotionally only 3, though, because he is so articulate it is easy to forget.

I think people confuse brightness with ability to communicate at this age. I don't think DS2 is any brighter than DS1 (who wasn't such a good talker young) - I would just say that DS2 is very articulate