Before I bore everyone - is this a suitable place to establish if my child is G/T?

[padboz]

She seems well ahead of her peers, shes 28 months - if I rattle off a list of things will anyone here be able to cast an eye over it?? or is she too young? you must get hundreds of these... sorry if its not the done thing

padboz, your daughter does indeed sound advanced for her age. But I would be very careful, at this stage.

I have a profound dislike of pushing academia in children. It is enough that you have a bright child. The world is her university. Push her no further than that.

There is far too much emphasis placed on intelligence these days. With children, a parent must always work on the weak points, and not the strong points. These are innate and inborn.

Ensure she has fun, and has empathy with other human beings. And please don't be tempted to push her when she's a little older than she is now. It will only end in tears .. on both sides.

ds1 did all those alphabet & counting things at her age with a few extra oddities thrown in (such as hearing a tune once then singing it back). He didn't talk but he could approximate the sounds of whole books and all the nursery rhymes we threw at him (so he had a memory for them iyswim). He would hold up equals symbols (from a magnetic box) and say something that was his version of 'equals (ee- an or something) and he did the same to various other maths symbols, shapes etc. He used to say 'da dee dium' (trapezium) very clearly. He's 9 now, non-verbal and has severe learning difficulties. He still does his listen to a song once then sing it back party trick.

I have no idea what ds2 and ds3 were doing as all I looked out for was pointing by 18 months - didn't really care about anything else.

28 months is too young for expectations. Just relax and enjoy.

ime you have to be very careful with the early excellent talking/colouring/letter recognition stuff.

DD was just like this.

Now at 11 she is still a bright child, but isn't top of the class . She doesn't need extra streching, she's just a happy little bunny,has lots of friends, enjoys school and is doing well.

Capital letters were ds1's thing. He would point them all out on road signs - well actually not point as he couldn't - but touch them ad say the name of the letter. He could read some words (no idea how many as there were only a few word approximations that I could recognise). He also used to switch them so he'd hold a 3 upside down and say "e" then piss himself laughing. Did the same with 7/L and h/4 (like a calculator 4). I thought it was remarkably clever.

He now has a remarkable ability to spot toilet signs and the word toilet wherever we go. At swimming on Sunday he started signing toilet then gesticulating into the far distance at what I thought was a broom cupboard- it was a toilet he'd never been in. Usually the first I know is when I get dragged off without warning- it was only when I realised that the signs he was following was words only (no symbols) that I realised it was a word he could read.

I'd concentrate on social stuff personally, getting on with other people is far more of a key to a happy life than academics.

thanks everyone for your time in replying. As I say - I was mainly interested to see if I've got any perspective more than to get her into the Sorbonne for Michaelmas term. Its always difficult to tell if I'm just looking at her as AMAZING (cos I cooked her up) or if she is just a little bit ahead on a couple of things at the moment. TBH I would be more concerned if she turned out to be really G/T cos I'd have no idea how to handle it! And we'd need a piano and a trapeze and shite like that