How come nobody believes me about my 2 yr old son?

Question

I know that people brag about their children, that's what parents do. My son is 2 and already knows the whole alphabet, his numbers, and mostly his colours, I teach him well, he is very polite, and excuses himself, says sorry, thank you, please, and your welcome. He just turned two and looks like a 4 yr old. He talks good. Our family members are amazed when he talks. They never believed us before. My niece is 4 and doesn't know her alphabet, but that's not her fault. I'm not saying my son is a proditgy, but I am saying he is smart. Our family members always say that everyone says that, but it's the truth. How come people are like this? Why won't anyone believe what people say anymore. My mother didn't even believe me until she wrote letters down on a doodle board and he started to say every one. She said that none of my siblings including myself even did that. why are people so rude when it comes to children?

I also read to my son and daughter, so parents read to your children, no matter what the material is.

I always let my son show his actions, I don't bring him up, unless someone asks me about him. It's not like I am constantly talking about him. I see his great things

for all the people twisting words, get a life.

My son knows animals too, but he did that at a young age. I'm Spanish, and teaching him spanish is hard because I don't think he can pronounce them very well, but I keep on trying

Answer 1

BOTH of my children were like that at his age.

People are rude because they believe that you have nothing to do all day other than sit in front of your child and drill this stuff into them, while theirs are sitting in front of the t.v. all day because there parents are either too lazy or too busy to interact with their own kids, or they are simply idiots.

Neither of my kids were on those computer programs, phonics programs and we did not indulge in baby talk with them. Neither was either breast fed (those extra 10 I.Q. points mean alot to some people in this argument.).

Simply put, some kids ARE smarter than others, and there is very little evidence that early learning like this actually means that they will do better than those who were "late learners" (not my label, but from another very popular message board) in school.

Don't let it bother you. People are idiots, and you cannot change them.

Answer 2

I believe you ...my son is also just two and not only does he know his whole alphabet and can say them he also knows them by looking at the letters and naming them and knows the phonics of them and the sounds they make, he counts to twenty knows all his colors and knows some animals and colors in Spanish too. That is the second language we have introduced to him to . My husband and I are not Spanish just what we learned in college but we thought it would be good to teach him some anyway. Children are like sponges and they will take in all the information you give to them. My husband and I started reading to our son when he was very young ,like a week old and he prefers books over toys. If you spend time with your kids they will pick up on things so quick.
Anyway I know you are telling the truth keep up the good work with him!!!

Answer 3

Look, it's great that your son's so advanced. Constantly harping on how smart he is starts to look like you're vicariously living your life through your kid, though. An example: a woman I met at a playground rattled on and on about how her (silent) 2-year old could talk the ear off a gossip--but the kid never said a word to anyone in the two hours we were at the park. Be proud of your son. He is obviously very bright and you are a very dedicated mother to have devoted so much time and energy to making sure he can get into kindergarten at the age of 2. Just don't be so vocally proud of him that everyone discounts you or sees you as playing the mommy-comparison game.

Oh, and it's spelled 'prodigy'.

Answer 4

I believe you, my brother is going to turn 3 and he started talking pretty clear since he was 2 he is very intelligent, knows the colors since that age counts to 20 and the weird part is he only speaks English we are a Latin family nobody speak English at home, only Spanish.
He knows the alphabet in English and Spanish count in both languages, and now that i went back home, i got sick i was supposed to take care of him, but he didn't let get up of my bed, we were alone and he made his own breakfast of course it was only milk and cereal but...for that age i think not all the kids can do it.
You should be very proud of your kid no matter what...people believe what they want to believe, you know that you are saying the true.
So who cares what other people thinks!!!
if i was you i will try to help him as much as possible and always tell him how proud you are.
congratulations!!!
He should be going to school soon my friend!!!!

Answer 5

I don't care much for people who brag about their children, I'm always wondering why. Usually the people who brag need validation from strangers and acquaintances that they're not getting from someone else.

The more kids I had of my own and the more kids I know, the more I realize that everyone has different talents and different timetables for development. It's great if other people compliment you on your kids on how smart they are and you smile and say thank you. Then turn it around and appreciate something about their child, or recognize their place in your child's development (if they were their teacher for example).

Otherwise pointing out how brilliant your kid is may make his siblings, his cousins, his aunts, grandma, your friends and their children feel defensive and inadequate. If people are noticing on their own and getting defensive they are probably just a little jealous.

But great intelligence, just like everything else people like to brag about (how rich you are, how smart you are, how great your sense of humor, how large the size of your genitals, etc) - well all those things really speak for themselves.

Answer 6

Our minds sometimes play tricks. If you were expecting to hear sounds from your mother's house, that might very well allow an auditory hallucination, stimulated by the noise on your cell phone line, to "break through" to the point were you perceived it as real. Your normal rational filtering mechanisms wouldn't work, because at the time it was entirely resonable that you would hear sounds from your mother's house. But really (I propose) they were coming from your own mind, just like dreams. This doesn't mean you're crazy. Small doses of various drugs could produce the same effect. All of us are, at times, on the edge of misinterpreting the apparent perceptions of our senses. Sometimes I think that everyone should try a small dose of LSD, just so that they can see what an hallucination is really like, and how difficult it can be in some mental states to distinguish hallucination from reality. If everyone knew this (including religious prophets) it might save the world from a lot of the suffering caused by religion.

Answer 7

My son was the same way so I just shut up and didn't talk about it. I didn't teach him how to read because I didn't want him to get to far ahead in school but during the 2nd week of kindergarden he read a book to the teacher. He was never in day care either. He could add and subtract single digits at 4, knew his alphabet, blah blah blah and I didn't teach him this stuff. He had a lot of learning toys like leap frog, leap pad, intelli-table, einstein baby, the toy laptop computers, etc and he learned from them. I have always read to him a lot and I agree with you about reading to your children. I believe that's what opened his mind to figure things out on his own and gave him his love of learning. He knew his colors before he was 2 years old which I did teach him and of course the animals and their sounds. The only one he always got confused on was the duck, he always said, "the duck says AFLAC!!".

Answer 8

My daughter is a genius (literally, she has been tested), and did those things very early, too, so I know it is possible. She was reading at 4 years old, knew her colors, shapes, numbers, letters, etc at a year and a half. I worked with her alot and read to her every day. My brother (who has a daughter the same age who is an "average" learner) said I was damaging her by "cramming knowledge down her throat" (his exact words). When you have a gifted child, they thrive on knowledge so don't let them discourage you. Your son is different, just like my daughter, and require different things than average children. Just be proud and ignore the rude comments.

Answer 9

That is great! He already knows his letters. WOw, you have been working hard with him. I think that it is hard for people to comprehend that your child is more advanced than theirs were. They may feel defensive in that they did not try as hard with their children as you do with yours. For example, your mother may feel like a failure in a sense because you and your siblings did not do as well as your son does. It is all about what you teach them. My daughter started saying her alphabet at 2 as well and I was very suprised. Dont let it bother you, take the jealousy as a compliment and keep doing what you are doing! Good work mom!

Answer 10

my daughter was like that as well when she was 2, but we never had any trouble with people believing us, probably because we didn't really talk about it all the time, she just did her own natural thing and people would say, How old is she, and wow shes really smart and what not.

this Thanksgiving my aunt was commenting on how she seems more like a 5 yr old in her intellect and verbal skills than a 3 yr old. We don;t make a big deal out of it.