After a parent-teacher meeting and an assessment, your child is labelled as being gifted.
We feel like 2 villagers with a child that is getting a scholarship and chance to go abroad.
We dont know what to do about it! I feel like if i dont spend every min on him and tweak his abilities… Im letting his talent go to waste… But on the other hand…how dumb is that? He is the way he is cuz of the way he is!
We havent gone out of our way to teach him things… Just the usual stuff that parents do. So if its working so far…is it necessary to put such a young child in diff kinds of programmes to help him build on diff skills he is good at..
I just feel like its gonna become a chore and burden his tiny brain. Reading up on it online didnt help either… Seems my world should be revolving around fine tuning his skills 24/7!
We have another appt with a specialist in child development next week… So hopefully can get some more guidance…
But what do the parents of gs think…especially those in the teaching sector… What would u guys do? Put the kid in various progs…or just help build on their skills from home, using thw web for techniques and games or projects to do with ure child?
I at the moment am havng a blonde moment. Quite honestly… When the caregiver was telling us all the things we could and should start doing with him… It felt like it was a chore having a gifted child … I felt bad feeling like that but its trueeee…
Cute! What I think that you should not do more than you are doing right now unless you feel that you would have done it before you found out of this. I dont think its good to put a small kid into to much pressure being gifted or not well again my personal opinion.
I know from experience, we started M with online quran when she was 3 and mA at the beginning she was going just fine and learing fast but afterwards it got to much for her and now she is slow and forgets things a lot, so not good to put pressure, maybe we should have waited 1-2 years more before we would have started her.
if you see that he's getting bored or acting out because he's not challenged enough by his activities/toys, then i'd suggest maybe looking into it further, but then again, he's only 2! you don't want him to feel under pressure because he's got a timetable to follow and expectations to meet.
Saadia: oh shucks… But i agree… Pressure or burdening the child cuz we want them to succeed earlier than usual isnt good either
Sgc: he isnt bored nor does he act out… Infact, he finds a new thing to do everyday out of random things he comes across… Like today..i gave him a box of clip legos which i knew were too advanced for him… He couldnt handle em so he did what he could… Sort them into similar shapes first, and then got bored so mixed em up and sorted them according to colors before putting em all down his diaper and doing a butt hop …
So thats my worry… If he is so good at coming up wi stuff all by himself with ofcourse edging on and help from us to fully understand what a certain obkect and its function is, should we still take it a step further and enroll him in proper activities for advanced kids.
To me its a bit much right now tbh… But the confusion sets in when i feel like im doing wrong by not putting him in these progs… Letting his talent go to waste… Thats what is upsetting me more…
This inner battle :sigh:
Alishast: He started off by reaching all his milestones earlier than usual…ppl said he is in a hurry…we thought yaya..doesnt make him smarter…then he started to play weird. If a toy made a sound, he would turn it upside down to see where the battery went…we thought thats just cuz he saw us putting it in..( in this assessment we were told its not normal for a 6 month old to notice such things thus making our midget smart )… He never actually played with his toys (to this day)…he always comes up with some other use for them..unless its his kitchen or tool kit…he has always been very veey aware of his surroundings and what is happening around him…he is an observer…even when he was a baby. He would sometimes do things in a manner that was too mature for a baby and now toddler but we didnt put too much rhought into it… Even though ppl that would visit us, would say he was a smart child…we just thought, okay ya, nice thing to say…
Until recently when my son started daycare and his caregivers pointed it out that he has a very good ear for languages, his play technique is far more advanced and very well thout out for kids his age… What we as parents thought was normal…his caregivers are saying…isnt for a child his age. Theu say that if a child is observant and can rememeber what they see or hear for later use and application, coupled with curiosity, makes them smarter than the rest.
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