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"Chookie" <ehrebeniuk@foulspambegone.com.au> wrote in message
news:ehrebeniuk-CB7D54.22540825042005@news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
| In article <426ba144$0$79457$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>,
|  "A s s i l e m" <nick_off@getreal.org> wrote:
|
| > Um is your name Melissa and we've stepped back in time by ooohhhh 9
years??
|
| Nice to know someone else who's BTDT!
|
| > I would suggest you get in touch with your local MCH centre and take it
from
| > there. She should be able to give you links to the GIFTED childrens
centres
| > (or goggle them) but defaintely get hold of them.
|
| Have to tell you this story then.  When DS was 2 I took him in to the
child
| health centre for the appointment.  Mentioned that I thought he might be
| bright.  Well, what a look I got!  Plainly, I was one of those pushy Mums
| (goodness knows why; I live in Western Sydney, not the Eastern Suburbs)
and
| she sort of ignored it.  Later on she asked, "So, is he saying about 20
words,
| then?" (which is typical of a 2yo).
|
| "Um, no, over 120."
|
| "Ohhhhh!"
|
| <grins evilly at memory>


That is sooooo much like us. J was about 18 months old when we went to one
of those jigsaw parties, he pulled apart an alphabet and number puzzle and
the the demonstrator was having kittens over him when he was able to put it
back together on his own.

Another interesting fact about him too, J was about 7 months old and just
crawling. We had the telly on one night and he crawled right up close and
was watching the Keno draw....I changed channel....he BAWLED...I have never
seena  baby chuck a tanty but I reckon thats that it was...I put it back on
keno...silence...turned it off tanty. It was amazing, I put it down to the
colours but now I'm not so sure if it was the colours or the numbers (he has
a number thing).  He was fine if he watched the whole draw and it ended but
god help us if we changed the channel half way thru.

We've also got a photo here somewhere of him lying on the lounge room floor
with a newspaper, right way up and looking like he was reading...he was
about 12-15 months.

You look back now and it's like "what was he really doing? could he read
then? was he learning to read then? how muhc of that did he really know?"
very bizzarre!

We (I) used to read to him as a baby but I never "taught" him to read...

Melissa

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| Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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| "In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is
| nothing worth being eager or vigorous about."
| Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893.