Do Kids Grow Up Too Fast

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When they start school early. I am not talking about pre-school. My great-nephew was in school before his first birthday. While he is very smart for his age. He is developing some bad habits at an age too early for it. Last night, my sister who is one of his teachers at school was telling me how amazed she is with how sneaky and conniving he is(her words not mine). She said the other day he kept calling a bigger boy over pretending like he wanted to show him something. When the boy finally came over, my nephew snatch his toy and ran to the other side of the playground and then stopped to look back. The better boy came over and beat him up and took the toy back. She says, it he wants a toy that another child has, he will go get another toy, and take that one to the child and try to get him interested in the new toy, so he can take the one that the child is already playing with. She said, when he is not in her class, he will sneak over to her room and peak until he thinks that she is not looking, then he will start calling the other kids out of her class and telling them to come on. She says that she watches him out of the corner of her eye. All this and he will not be two years old until March 26th. I talked to him on the phone the other day and he sounded so loud and clear. When He got off the phone I could hear him saying, moneeeeey, moneeeey, moneeeey. My sister said that he was sticking his hand in her pocket and then pulling it out and yelling moneeeeey, but there was nothing in his hand. Well, he sure knows where it comes from. Now, I am not yet a mother. But my sister is the mother of a twenty year old and triplets. She is also a teacher for toddlers, so if she says this little one is doing to much for his age, I believe her. His mother started when she was two and she is just brilliantly smart. But all through grade school, she just kept messing up and getting in trouble. Her mother never allowed her to skip a grade and I think that she just got real bored and burnt out early. Personally, I think that what he is doing is cute. I just hope he does not suffer like his mother did. I believe there is something to be said for learning too much too fast.