My daughter is smart!

Just keep it healty. Do stimulate her, put do not PUSH. And make sure you let her know that she is a wonderfull child wether she is so called 'smart' or not. You do not want her thinking that she has to be and act smart in order to be appreciated. And pay attention to her social skills and development, a lot of the 'smart' people really lack in social skills. And find it hard to communicate or make friends.

wow, i think she's smart!

That is wonderful, and very smart, maybe you can get her into a special school since she is so smart, I mean I don't think pushing her at such a young age is bad, but I wouldn't push to hard, after all she deserves to be a child and has plenty of time for learning.

My daughter is pretty much the same. She can say her ABC's and also count to fifteen. Sometimes she can make it to twenty, but not all the time. She is going to be three really soon, lol actually tomorrow. She has known her ABCs for about five or six months now. She has been able to count to ten, for what seems like forever, but she just recently learned how to get to fifteen. My daughter also known all of her shapes. Haha she was in the car with her grandmother and she told her that the stop sign was an octogan. Haha I think that is what is is. To be honest, I don't even know all of my shapes that well. We got some crayola flash cards from the dollar store and they really helped her with her learning. To me, it is kind of funny that I came across your message, even though it seems to be a little bit older. Did you help your daughter and work with her, like with flash cards? As I said above, that is what I did. Also, the LeapFrog Fridge Magnet thing helped too. My daughter loved that. I also have people that tell me that my daughter is smart. I don't know if this is considered pushing or not, but I work with my daughter at least one hour out of every weekday, I am a stay at home mom. We spend the same week focusing on the same thing, so that she doesn't get overwhelmed. This week we are working on recognizing the second half of the alpahbet. I am hoping to have her reading soon. I do think that your daughter is smart. I am I not trying to take away from that either, but I think that so many more children could be like yours if some effort was put forth. I had one of my friends tell me that she couldn't believe that my daughter knew what her shapes where, because hers didn't. Mind you her daughter is like three and half years old. I gave her some links to some websites that have preschool worksheets, but I held my tounge. I really wasn't to be like, well yours can be smart too if you actually work with her. Even though that was what I was thinking.

She seems intelligent. Intelligence is generally measured by how quickly you can learn new things, she may just be regurgitating facts, but she does know quite a few words for her age. Make sure you don't push your wants/desires on her. Many children get turned off when their parents become estatic about thier accomplishments and try to "Teach" them with flash cards or other tools. Learning should be fun, even if she has great potential, she'll never get there with you doing the pushing, it has to be her who's interested. but by all means, don't let her thirst for knowledge go unquenched!

That is awesome!

I think thats great, My son also used to say ABC at the age of one and a half years. Only thing is do not push her bnut give her all the stimulating toys to play with. Use play and learn techiniques with her. Fisherprice has quite a wide range of such toys and never be overconfident of her. Just keep providing stuiff and let her master it I think she will do very well. Pushing her will make her loose confidence.

she is definately smart! she sounds like my daughter. my daughter knows how to count up to 20 in 4 languages and will be learning 3 more because her daddy knows 7 languages. her pawpaw is teaching her another (Chinese)lol it is so funny to hear her say i love you mommy in so many languages. anyways! continue to practice, practice, practice with her. don't stop! our children are smarter than we are by far and they can learn from our mistakes! but we can give them something that we took for granted. we can give them the right education! thanks for your post!

All kids are smart in there own way. I assume this is your first. I have a 4 yr old who can read and a 18 month old who is potty trained. Each kid is different. I have been homeschooling my 4 yr old because she is more than ready and it would be silly to put her in Preschool where they learn colors and numbers! I say if your girl is ready then go for it! Eventually she will need the extra time with another skill so go ahead and get started now! My 4 yr old was like yours, potty trained before 20 months, ABC and all that stuff so we just went for it! Good Luck! It is great to have kids that don't have health or developmental problems you should feel blessed because a lot of families have these problems!

plus I believe girls are usually faster when it comes to talking. At least so I have heard...

She is smart and sounds like my son. My son can say his a,b,c's and 1,2,3's plus he can wash his hair, brush his teeth and more. He is three years old. He acts like he's five. I know how proud you are of your daughter just like I am of my son.

hey its amazing , she is really GOD GIFTED , definitely push her she can reach great heights.... and u wil b a proud mom ...!!!!!!

U should because she can be like in the 5th grad by age 3 lol but im serious