is my son gifted?

[ammumohan]

My 3 year old 3 month son(pre schooler) read & write all alphabets (upper & lower case) & count up to 25 & write numbers up to 60.He read & write three letter words like cat, ball, dog, ant, bat , mop, rat from his memory. He sings national athem & above 10 nursery rhymes may be more.He knows simple G.K about our nation, currency, father of nation, about animals etc.He speeks about sun, moon, stars etc. he knows colors & shapes. He identified alphabets in his 1y & 2 months & read completely in his 1y & 6months.Is he gifted?

[hippppy]

Time will tell. Just keep up the good work!

My son could count to 100 when he was 2 and to 10 in 5 different languages. He was like a sponge for remembering things! I was a young single mum and had never even heard of Gifted and Talented, I just knew he was very bright so I did lots of extra work with him!

He is still little, and does sound very bright! Sounds like you have a fab childminder too.

[breatheslowly]

I think that you need to define what you mean by gifted for anyone to be able to say whether your son is gifted. If you are talking about whether your son is in the top 5%, then your son sounds like he might be in that group. If you mean "is he the type of genius most people meet only once or twice in a lifetime?" then it just isn't possible to say.

[richmal]

Ammumohan, I do not know if he is gifted, but he is certainly ahead of his peers. It sounds as though both you and his nanny care about his education and that both of you are gifted at teaching him.

I would not worry whether or not he is gifted if he continues to do so well. At the end of the day, all that he will be tested on academically will be his ability, not how that ability came about.

[BlessedAssurance]

at owllady

[NinjaCow]

He sounds very bright, possibly gifted. My DD is fairly bright but couldn't do that (although tbh, we haven't tried or attempted anything like that, no educational youtube videos etc; but even so, I doubt it) and is a bit older.

[Owllady]

We are all jealous of you
My children think the sun is a newspaper

[jojane]

Ds1 taught himself to read with only minimal input from us (as in if he asked us want a word was we would tell him). He was assessed as reading at 14+ when he started reception. He is extremely clever and remembers everything but although school say he is gifted I am not sure is truly is, extremely bright, intelligent and inquisitive yes but truely gifted am an not sure. I think the term gifted is used too much, to me gifted is a child who can comprehend and use the laws of physics, debate the use of language etc etc rather than a child who learns things a bit earlier than thier peers.
I too was a 'gifeted' child, put up a year and joined Mensa age 12, but all it really did was make me think I didn't need to bother trying and as an adult there are plenty of people more intelligent than me

[richmal]

ZanyMobster, yes then, I have been taking the "taught himself/herself to read" too literally. I thought it was rather odd; all these children managing to figure out reading, all by themselves, with no other input.

[BlessedAssurance]

Jante Law i meant to say or Janteloven if you prefer.

[BlessedAssurance]

I have often wondered if Dd was gifted but i think she is just smart. She knew the whole alphabet before she was 2 simply because she was and is very much into books. She then went on to "read" to me one night the whole bible story about David and Goliath, again this was not reading. She had memorised the story. However, on the pc she could write a some words like God, Jesus, mamma,pappa,gran and a few more. She can count and is only getting to understand how to count to 100. She later learned to write her name on the pc then had breakdowns when she couldn't write the the same S on paper. She has mustered all this and more before 4. Is she giftet? Time will tell. It is when she explains the whole digestive system to me that sometimes i am .

Enjoy your little boy Op and see what happens. I normally try to downplay my Dd' s intelligence because no one will ever see it as such and we live in a "Jante Love" country so giftet is not a word you will ever hear where we live. The whole thing about everyone being equal and all.

[ZanyMobster]

DS1 taught himself to read but what I mean by that is that he had a kids laptop thing that taught phonic sounds, he then figured out that if he put the sounds together he could read the words. I had no idea until one day he told me he could read, he could read all basic phonetically spelt words.

He then learnt the next stage sounds (putting 2 letters together such as 'er' and 'or' but he also seemed to have a good understanding meaning of he phonetically sounded out a word and it didn't quite sound right he could figure out what it meant.

[ItIsAnIdeasGame]

I'm gifted but couldn't do that. It only came really apparent when I was 6/7. Having kids of my own, I'm pretty impressed. The brightest of my 3 demonstrated that by counting to 5 aged 2 (because my mum taught her).

I would concentrate on just keeping your child busy and engaged.

[richmal]

So is it more a case of the two year old having recognised one or two words like "dog" from being read to previously, rather than being able to demonstrate they have worked out how to sound out sentences like "Here is a dog" from a book all by themselves.

I am obviously taking the "Dd2 taught herself to read" too literally.

[ouryve]

richmal - even if a pre-verbal child can't read you a story, they can do what the word says or match it to the object it represents. My 7yo is non-verbal and has severe learning difficulties, but can always navigate a menu on a tablet, find credits in any game, recognise the names of shops and TV programs, in some cases devoid of their logo etc. If he makes me sound words out and I deliberately get it wrong, then there's some words that he will get cross at me for getting wrong and others that he'll pull a face at because I didn't make sense.

[ZanyMobster]

The YR teachers I know say it is rare even in a 2 or 3 for intake to have children who can read. Occasionally there is 1 or 2 but often none. This is in an area where ousted consider that children start school average or above average.

18 months is very young to be able to read properly, DS1 recognised letters/numbers out of order at that age but could read by the time he was 3. He is gifted in literacy at 8 yo. His friend couldn't read until the end of the autumn term of yr and is also gifted so none of it is necessarily relevant.

[ZanyMobster]

The YR teachers I know say it is rare even in a 2 or 3 for intake to have children who can read. Occasionally there is 1 or 2 but often none. This is in an area where ousted consider that children start school average or above average.

18 months is very young to be able to read properly, DS1 recognised letters/numbers out of order at that age but could read by the time he was 3. He is gifted in literacy at 8 yo. His friend couldn't read until the end of the autumn term of yr and is also gifted so none of it is necessarily relevant.

[richmal]

Yr r usually have a handful of children who turn up from nursery as competent readers

This was not my experience. I taught dd to read before school. When I looked round schools one did not believe me and another said they had one child a couple of years back who could read.

Also out of curiosity, if your dd taught herself to read before she could speak how did you know she was reading?

[arabellarubberplant]

He could read completely at 18 mos? That is very clever. Dd2 taught herself to read before she could speak, and there are other very early readers that I know, but reading competently at 18 mos is definitely unusual.

The rest, not so much - very bright, definitely! I think that the average age of recognising letters and numbers is going to start dropping because children have such very early access to iPhones and iPads. Lots of kids with access to letters and numbers will pick them up very easily.

I also suspect it will cause a much greater spread of abilities in the kindergarten classroom, between those who use these tools with these kids and those who don't.

Yr r usually have a handful of children who turn up from nursery as competent readers, so there shouldn't be any problems in school. He sounds fun. I love little kids. They are like sponges!

[MrRected]

Middleage - you were unnecessarily blunt and if I am honest, sounded a we bit bitter.

[Middleagedmotheroftwo]

Still don't get why what I said was rude

[natellie1970]

Curiosity I imagine I've noticed people can be very dismissive of OPs on this forum and I think it's a little unfair it's can be difficult to talk about our dc abilities and we should be able to post on here without feeling like our kids aren't good enough or we're showing off and we've wasted a thread. Why can't people either answer with a constructive reply or ignore the thread? I'm sorry if this upsets anyone that isn't my intent but I've seen some unhelpful and not very pleasant posts on here.

[Iamnotminterested]

OP if you don't care if he is gifted or not, why ask?

[ammumohan]

@ Middleagedmotheroftw

Im proud about him. I dont mind is he gifted or not.. Im a working lady.i spent with him only 3 or 4 hrs daily. He is in a day care.. His nanny told me he is bright may be gifted.She is a well educated lady.she taught him how to write letters & numbers. There are 7 kids in her day care.She told me he is very fast learner compared to others. so just i asked my doubt.

[Middleagedmotheroftwo]

Why was that rude?

[ammumohan]

Thank you all...