Gifted child?

I don't know if you want to listen to me but I think you should defintely nuture yor son. Read a lot to him and try to find things he is interested in...music, art, whatever and give him whatever he needs to learn. I think this is a very important time in his life and you could make a big difference.

My preemie's IQ was also tested around 18 months. The important thing is you have to remember, no matter what the results are, is to let him be a kid! So many parents get carried away with the IQ scores and start forcing their children to spend an increasing amount of time learning and neglect the need for play time. Making the child become a genius or a star becomes all consuming. As long as you can keep it in perspective, there is nothing wrong with having the IQ test done. (I'm an R.N. and my "gifted" son was born 3 months premature.)

My son was walking and talking in sentences at 11 months and we just left him grow up as a normal child and have never been sorry for that decision. Sometimes when a child is gifted they tend to use him as a ginnypig of sorts and push them to their limits. Sometimes it is too much for the poor child and they have emotional problems later on, so proceed with caution and do what you think is best for him, nobody else, okay?

Intellectual giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average. Giftedness is a trait that starts at birth and continues throughout the life-span. Giftedness is not a marker of success, but rather of aptitude or the inherent ability to learn. Some theorists in child development, including Linda Kreger Silverman and Dr. Fernidad Eide, have estimated that between 20-40% of gifted individuals have a learning disability, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder or some other neurological disorder[citation needed], whereas researchers, such as Stephanie Tolan, postulate that the attribution of controversial disorders such as "ADHD" - which has not been proven to exist by any means other than subjective behavioral analysis [1] - to gifted individuals arises from a misguided tendency to pathologize that which we don't understand.[2] [3] It is generally agreed that giftedness may have a genetic component; research has shown that first-degree relatives of the intellectually gifted will often have IQs measuring within 10–15 points of each other.[citation needed] Gifted children often develop asynchronously; their minds are often ahead of their physical growth, and specific cognitive and emotional functions are often at different stages of development. One frequently cited example of asynchronicity in early cognitive development is Albert Einstein, who did not speak until the age of three, but whose later fluency and accomplishments defied this initial delay. It has been said that gifted children may move more quickly through stages established by post-Freudian developmentalists such as Jean Piaget.[citation needed] Gifted individuals also experience the world differently, resulting in unique social and emotional issues. The work of Kazimierz Dabrowski suggests that gifted children have greater psychomotor, sensual, imaginative, intellectual, and emotional "overexcitabilities

pl. let him enjoy his childhood .don't get carried away with his scores.let hi lead a normal life.his scores are an added advantage,but don't push him for some special classes.chilhood is a short period and let him be a child.

your child seems to be a poridge. You are a lucky mom. congrats

my daugther is the same way she is now almost three and already learning to write letters see has learned everything under this step including learning to speak some spanish words she even counts in spanish it took me forever to get her to tell me in english the word "open" she kept saying it in spanish and even though I know what she meant I wanted her to say it in english! but testing an iq that's sounds strange to me...

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My sugeestion is that since he is gifted dont make him over work..let him be normal child..dont force all ur interest in him..Then he might get overloaded..

Wow I would say your child has a future ahead of him. It is good to have a gifted child but maintaining it is hard. There are many cases of gifted child losing it when they grew up already. I suggest that you enroll in him school for the gifted children so that he can be assessed properly and develop his skills the right way. I am pretty sure he will learn other things along the way just let him be who he is right now.