Question for parents who have very intelligent children (GT)?

Question

I would love to hear your stories of your children. On talent ability and intelligents when they were extremely young. More or less what was the first unusual thing your child could do that most children couldn't? And at what age?
My son is 9 now and I have always known there was something very special and different about him.
At 3 months of age we would go shopping he would see something that he LIKED and he would reach for it (monkey puppet) I took it down and let him hold it and he smiled. When I took it away and put it back on the shelf he began to cry and reach for it again. This happened several times so we took the stuffed,puppet monkey home and called him George. He wanted George when we went anywhere and everywhere. :)

At age of 9 months he was talking plain and in long sentences.

At age of 1 1/2 I went to pick him up from my sisters (she was babysitting while I worked) and I walked in the door to find him sitting on the floor rolling two cars,...made of legos,...

on the floor,...they were color coordinated,looked like cars. I asked my sister if her husband had made them or her. She told me neither. My son then looked at me and said " I did momma. Don't you like them." I was stunned. I told him they were great. My sister then told me with shock on her face how she and her husband watched him make a airplane earlier and take it apart and then make the cars.

These are only a few but I would love to hear your stories.

kit,..he is in gifted and talented classes. In 3rd grade they wanted to move him into 5th grade. But I chose against that due to pressure he already gets from other children. He isn't a smartmout or anything like that. He is very caring and shows his love for children with disabilities.

greeneye,...I know the feeling. When he was 2 he used words ,...intention,exactly,destiny,purpose,exception,,.....and knew what they meant. Along with many more. My friends got amazed when he was small. They would tell me it was like carrying on conversation with a 25 yr old in a childs body.

Aerynn,...I understand what you are saying. I don't talk about it in front of him. Regardless of if you do or not some children are going to label. Believe me I know too as I was when I was younger. My son is very caring towards others. No attitude with other children.
Which makes me think of when he was in first grade.
His teacher had been teaching for about 35 years. My son was one of 2 students she had ever taught that could read cursive. And the only one she had taught that wasn't taught to read cursive. He just knew it.
I went to a Christmas party and she told me that there are children you like to teach.And there are children that you don't like to teach. And there are children that just win your heart. She then told me that my son had won her heart.
She then told me that he was the only child in the class that cheered-on this little boy in the class that has only one arm,....said that the boy was at the board doing a problem and my son was clapping and telling him ,....

You can do it. You can do anything you put your mind to. And he had tears in his eyes.
His teacher then told me,..."I felt like crying,..my eyes were watered up. I just sat and watched as your son was encouraging him."

Mike thanx so much. Yesterday I heard of Indigo Children. Although my son meets most of the characteristics,...he isn't ADD or ADHD etc. I don't discourage him from anything believe me. :) I also was in advanced classes (2 to 3 years ahead in classwork,..though I chose not to move up in grades,...They just put me in advanced classes) I get so upset when I see people that don't believe things that they don't experience. I have a friend that doesn't even like kids,...one day I was at court house tending to some business and I ran into her,...she needed a ride home and lived near me,...so I told her sure and I asked if she would just keep an eye on him. She did. He was 3. When I came out she was in total disbelief. She said, " I could spend all day talking with your son. He is amazing! He was using words I have never heard of and when I asked him if he knew what they meant he was giving the meaning." I told her he does that alot. :) She asked me to let her husband meet him. He to was in,.

total disbelief.
With that being said I feel as if he has been reincarnated. There are just so many things that he does and says that make me think that. Thanx again Mike. :)

Mike I totally agree. I tell him as I feel and that is,... nothing is impossible. You can do anything you put your mind to. That is another thing that really is different about him too,....He has never had imaginary friends. He is so realistic. Take for instance when he was in 1st grade I went to eat lunch with him. And we ate lunch in their classroom. There was this little sweet girl telling me she had king cobras in her back yard. And then of course the other students joined in telling me stuff which I thought was cute. All of the sudden my son said "You shouldn't lie. There are no king cobras in North America. The only place you can find them here is in a zoo." I told him " shhhhh" He then looked at me and said " well momma it is true." He isn't rude when he corrects someone. He is just tells them that they are wrong in their statements. :) He is not an aggressive child at all. I think he corrects people only because he thinks they should know. As an adult would correct a child. :)

Mike if you find time look at my closed question,..Indigo or coincidence? and put on here what you think :) thanx again.

Answer 1

i took my nephew to the place in d.c. with all the art (yeah, like i remember what it's called? hello). he was listening to the woman telling us all about each painting and when she was done my nephew would say " and did you know............" and keep on going on and on about each painting and artist.( things that most people don't know). by the middle of the tour everyone was following my nephew around and asking him questions. the curator was in shock! mouth and eyes wide open with a seriously puzzled look on her face.
he was 4!
he was excited about the art, which made everyone else get excited. i can only imagine how stupid i looked next to him. oh well.

also, using words like ubiquitous (is that spelled correctly?) in sentences at age 2. i had to look up the word.

Answer 2

My son was propped up on his shoulders looking around 20 min after birth - the doctors actually made a note of it on the delivery record. At 3 weeks old he started saying hi. By 9 mos he was talking, by 1 year he could talk in sentences and say his colors and shapes. At 4 he can speak basic spanish, read basic sentences, write basic sentences, understand elementary math (basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication)

My daughter was a very curious infant as well, she didnt utter a word until she was 11 mos old and when she did she said "momma, Im awake, come get me". I was floored. She has not been quiet since. She is two now, she is also learning spanish, she knows her alphabet and colors and numbers and her vocabulary is huge. She has been potty trained for about 6 mos now, but has recently started having accidents so I sat her down and sai, "honey, you cant keep doing this, you are a big girl now" to this she replied "I'm so sorry, Im ashamed, I'm just a failure" Of course I ended up comforting her, but it is amazing to me that she knows words like these and knows how to use them.

Answer 3

My son started to read at the tender age of three. He is seven and read Ernest Hemingway's "The old man and the Sea". He was nominated to skip a grade(first) but I felt he was not mature(talkative, like to roam around). So, instead they put him accelerated courses (Reading, sciences) along with his first-grade class. Also, I noticed when he was 2 years old, I put music on and he with the pots,pan, ladle follow the beat of the music. He also took to outer-space. He is like an encclopedia. He can tell you the difference between a comsonaut and an astronaut. He reading regimine is vigorous. He loves Greek-mythology, french,archeology, and anything that has to do with NASA. He plays the violin and can mimic some*** things he hears. I also remember when he was about four, my friend brought over his electric guitar and he just picked it up and started to strum these sounds that were coherent as rythmic. We both were shocked, we just stared at each other. Maybe, it was me being a pregnant college student that made him this way?Maybe he was in my womb absorbing all the information. Or it could be my fathers influence being an aerospace engineer? not too sure. But I do know this, God has blessed me.

Answer 4

Perhaps they mistake abilities with intelligence. A 10 12 months ancient and a forty 12 months ancient may also be similarly as clever, however most likely the forty 12 months ancient will look extra clever since they've gathered extra abilities through the years. Parents arent always extra clever than their youngsters, however they've extra lifestyles enjoy so as a consequence extra abilities that they have got of their vigour. Therefore it does make experience for a guardian to think extra clever than their youngsters, however they equivocate the phrase clever with knowledgable. So fairly, they're simply extra knowledgable, and it's quality for them to think this manner, since it's real. Unless the youngster is a hyper genius youngster prodigy. But if that's the case, the guardian could nonetheless be extra knowledgable approximately lifestyles often.

Answer 5

My daughter is now 5 years old she started talking at about 4 months but full sentences at 9 months walked at 8 months, she just seems to do things early so I got her invloved in activites about two years ago (she is like a sponge for knowlege) she plays piano very well is on swim team. Yet should could not start Kindergarte this because her birthday is in October, she can read, write and spell.

Answer 6

My daughter is bright, but wasn't talking in sentences at 9 months.

I was a very very bright child, too. One thing I would caution you about is try not to talk too much about it, etc, around him. I was always told how smart I was and it made me feel different. I got quite a complex and felt I had to be the best and that I was better than others who weren't as smart.

Just enjoy him for who he is and how he is developing, just as you would if he were developing at an average pace. Don't worry about comparing him to other kids or what is normal or anything like that. That's what I'm doing with my daughter- I don't brag about her abilities, and while I delight with her in her learning I try not to compare her to others.

There are a lot of other qualities to develop like patience, compassion, humility, etc, that are more important than intelligence.

Answer 7

Hi Dana,

I just picked up some points which in my opinion stood out from your description and made it very clear to me:

- At age of 9 months he was talking plain and in long sentences.

- He is very caring and shows his love for children with disabilities.

- building the cars and airplanes (--> high creativity)

- They would tell me it was like carrying on conversation with a 25 yr old in a childs body. (--> as talking to an adult, sometimes even as if to a wise person)

- She then told me that he was the only child in the class that cheered-on this little boy in the class that has only one arm,....said that the boy was at the board doing a problem and my son was clapping and telling him


I don't wanna "label" this kind of children but I wholeheartedly recommend you to read some introduction into this topic. Read the book from Jan Tober and Lee Carroll which you can find here:

http://www.amazon.com/Indigo-Children-Lee-Carroll/dp/1561706086/sr=8-1/qid=1163700065/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-9396962-1794310?ie=UTF8&s=books
and don't get discouraged by those few short sighted reviews. Either they have no clue or follow a special agenda.

Doreen Virtue is also very savvy about this topic since she also has own kids similar to your son:

http://www.amazon.com/Indigo-Crystal-Rainbow-Children-Doreen/dp/1401905641/sr=8-25/qid=1163700015/ref=sr_1_25/104-9396962-1794310?ie=UTF8&s=books

First off, this is no hogwash! No sect, no religion or any of this stuff! It's facts and a "phenomenon" which has started since the 80's and since then occurs more and more! Period. The fact you maybe never heard of this sort of kids before doesn't mean they don't exist. You will have to have an open mind when approaching "new" things, esp. if it's not "mainstream". And trust me Dana, there IS a reason why this knowledge has not become mainstream until now.

The sooner you make yourself familiar with this knowledge the sooner you'll understand your son better and not "worry" if and/or why he does things or doesn't or do things differently than other kids. He will thank you for it and believe me, you will learn many things from your son, something you really can look forward to! :-)
Just don't slow him down in his development just cause you know it differently from your own childhood. Things are changing in this world and many kids like your son have a hard time with their parents cause their parents have no clue "what the heck is going on" with their kids and let them to bo treaten by doctors who stuff them with some drugs and get ADD/ADHD (spelling?) labelled which is only to make those kids really sick.

Wish you fun and excitement in reading and your son, you and your family only the best! I know you will make the right thing :-)

Best wishes
Mike

P.S: Generally to all parents who responded here with similar behavior of their kids. The fact they can do some things very brilliant, i.e. playing a guitar, violin etc, showing great and strong interest in mythology, history, technical sophisticated things (NASA...) ancient stuff in general, this shows nothing else but ancient knowledge your child remembers in any form or shape. Now go and read some stuff about what I said before and start to ponder about it ;-) All I can say is it's hella interesting!!

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You're very welcome, Dana! By the way... it's not only your son which has re-incarnated but we all have more lives and not only one like some so called world religions have programmed us. You're on the right track. All this knowledge must come from somewhere, right? Thing is that most of us don't recall our past lives but some few do and many indigo kids indeed do. We don't recall consciously but our subconscious knows everything, knows all this! It's all saved like on a harddisk. We are confronted with it when i.e. you visit a place where you actually never have been but the surrounding appears so familiar to you, when we have special skills, can play an instrument incredibly well, learn some things in a breeze while others struggle etc. This all shows that we have some sort of "connection" to it. Sure, some things can be handed down from parents etc. but not always and surely not everything.

Another tip... never tell your son that something is impossible cause you think it is impossible. Many things we have been drilled to being "impossible" (while they are NOT) is the main cause when most children lose most of their born "psychic" abilities when they start to go to kindergarten/school, cause everybody and his dog tells them that this or that does not exist and that this or that is simply impossible, that they are fantasizing, mad etc. (re-programming)

Hint: What do you think little kids see and hear when they play and talk to "imaginery" friends only they can see? :-)

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Hi Dana, the behavior of your son stands out, no doubt about it. Quite impressive and that's what the new generation will be about, our new future. It has already started and will become just massive! It will shock many people as most just don't know and aren't prepared. All one can advise is to allow and follow your intuition.

To your final question... There are no coincidences, never has been, never is and never will be. Period. Everything is planned in advance, consciously and unconsciously. The unconsciously is what we wrongly describe as coincidence for most (yet) are not aware of the law of attraction and that our thoughts and actions come back to us. What you'll saw you'll reap. We resonate with our surrounding. If we are in bad mood, bad state etc. we'll attract bad things in our lives like a magnet, and you can take that literally since us humans are surrounded by an electro-magnetic field, just like our mind. (deep matter...lol... whole books have been written about that. I recommend to watch the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know?")

On the characteristics you describe your son I'd say he's an Indigo. If you wanna know for sure you'd have to consult a skilled clairvoyant/psychic person. I'm not too sure about that but many Indigos have the color indigo in their aura (hence the name indigo) and only those who are able to watch beyond some frequency spectrums can usually see that. But that is not the only indication. I'm sure there are others (beside the characteristics) to determine but I'm no "Pro" in this matter :-) Actually, it's not tooo important if your kid is an indigo or not (many indigos just don't like to being labeled that way though it's nothing offending or something but they don't wanna be treated that "special", you know) It might be interesting to know though and his life "tasks" for the current incarnation.

Hope that helps a little.

Best wishes
Mike

Answer 8

Have him tested and put him in a gifted program if he is indeed gifted. I would think that at the age of 9 he would be in High school classes by now no?

Answer 9

my 4 year od son wipes his own butt now and i am very proud.

Answer 10

wow