I’ll go first. My parents have a picture of the city skyline with hot air balloons floating aound in the sky. Not only can my three year old son count all of the balloons (there’s seven), he knows that the smaller ones are supposed to be farther away.
Did I mention he was just three? Not to put pressure on the kid, but I’m expecting BIG things from him. 
Hey, Baby Kate knows all her letters, can count to twenty (usually) and is the most advanced talker in her class.
Hell, she never shuts up.
I’m also a Dx2. My daughter is extremely bright. She’s been a “star student” since starting in her school last year (they pick one from each class for each semester, IIRC). Her teachers all talk about how wonderful she is.
Of course I worried that would make it tough for my son, who is 27 months younger. He just didn’t seem as smart. Then I started to notice things. Like when he was about 1.5-2 years old, and I was carrying him down the stairs, and I heard him whispering to himself. What was he saying? As I hit each step, he would count, “Eins. Zwei. Drei. Vier.” We lived in Germany at the time, but he didn’t speak German at home. Don’t know exactly where he picked it up. Or at the museum this weekend, for his 5th birthday party. He saw the dinosaurs up ahead. Look, dinosaurs. What kind is that?, I asked. I think it’s an Allosaur, he replied. Checked the plaque and the darn kid was right.
Neither is Mozart or Einstein, but I’m darned proud of them.
My six year old son is autistic. Between school, therapy at Children’s hospital and at home, he works more hours than most starting lawyers. Yet he stays pretty goodnatured through it all. He’s making great progress, and is now even making jokes. Though the world must be a very scary place to him, he’s trying to be sociable and to interact with people. He’s a trooper.
My son was vacuuming the house at age 3.
He has recently been accepted into the City Children’s Choir, which travels around to schools and performs!
He also paints designs on his white t-shirts.
Everyone tells me how polite he is. (of course, they do not see him at home with me!)
I’ve mentioned this before, but my daughter, when she was younger (about 4 I think) asked me that when we were drivivng along, was it possible that we were actually staying still and the world was rotating beneath us (frames of reference, from a toddler!).
My son (now aged 4) was in the bath last night and completely out of the blue, using his sister’s foam letters (that stick to the tiles when wet), he spelled out ‘off’ and ‘on’, then told me “this one says ‘off’ and this one says ‘on’” - he’s been fascinated with gadgets since he could walk so I guess he must have picked it up from on/off switches.
Oh, he will be 10 next week.
I’m still waiting for “dah-dah” to become “daddy.”
On the other hand, The Heapette seems to have a knack for putting things together.
My wife told me that nearly every day The Heapette opens the closet at Grammy’s house, pulls out the large stack of tupperware, places tham all about the floor in front of her, and then puts them all back together - smaller-in-larger - in a different order back in the closet.
She’s a year and four months.
Gorgon Heap, both of my kids (7&5) still call me dada. I prefer it to daddy. And there was a phase when my daughter was 5 and she called me just dad in a tone like a teenager. I hated that. Embrace dah-dah while you still have it.
Well, my oldest son, who’s 4 yrs, 8 mos, can read and write, knows all the planets in the solar system and all the parts of the digestive system and what they do, can use MS Word and the Internet (He “goes to wahoo”).
I’ve bragged too much about my Perfect Child[sup]TM[/sup] on these boards. But to show her human limits - she recently quit her job. What with school, her volunteer activities, and working, she didn’t have time for a life. So the job is gone till school lets out. I actually get to see her once in a while now! In fact, we’re going to the zoo this afternoon, just because we haven’t gone in a long time.
OK - just a little brag - she thinks Calculus is easy! The kid has a very high math aptitude. Too bad that aptitude doesn’t extend to keeping her room clean…
My 11 month old is already showing her dad’s analytical traits. Yesterday or the day before she was playing with the radio tuner and go the cd changer to open. After that, she tried the buttons one by one until she found the correct one that opens the cd changer. After that she opened it at will. I think that’s pretty amazing. Kid loves buttons.
My 2 year old gives me directions from her car seat. She knows how to get anywhere, and knows where we are at any given time (as long as we’ve driven by there one time before). She’s has a really good memory. I don’t know if it’s exceptional, but she impresses me all the time.
My 15 year old is a straight A+ student.
Wow, I’m impressed that nikkinick registered here just to brag about her/his son! Welcome to the Boards!
Psst, all the cool kids are registering so that they can tell Scylla how wonderful his Blimp story is.
nikkinick, a 2yo and a 15 yo? Yikes! My son also has recently started telling me to stop whenever he sees a stop sign. But he hasn’t quite figured out exactly which ones we are supposed to stop at. The ones for side streets and stuff are all fair game for him.
An Arky and ShibbOleth, I have a co-worker who is a font of trivia, the guy knows an awful lot about a lot of things. His seven yo son is exactly like him. The kid quizzes him all the time about dinosaurs, corrects him when he’s wrong, and also once said “Hey dad, let’s list the planets by the number of moons they have.” And then did so.
I really do think my kid is smart, but it’s fun to hear about everyone else’s children. Keep it up!
Yeah, my daughter was correcting my French pronounciation (and she was right) when she was barely three years old. That’s embarassing. We were worried when she started in International school in Thailand that she’d correct the teacher’s (non-native) English pronounciation, but it never happened that I’m aware.
When my oldest son was 5, my wife went to pick him up at lunch one day. He was eating lunch with the rest of his kindergarten class, and my wife was waiting for him to finish to take him somewhere (probably a doctor’s appointment). A classmate of his was talking while eating and the teacher informed the classmate that he shouldn’t do that because the food could go down the wrong pipe and he could choke.
My five year old then took it upon himself to inform his teacher that the windpipe was called the trachea and the food pipe was called the esophegus. According to my wife, “the teacher’s jaw dropped” and she stared at him in disbelief. She couldn’t believe that a five year old uttered that.
My younger son had an absolute fascination with letters as a toddler. As a result, he was able to identify all the letters of the alphabet (captial and lowercase) as well as the Hebrew alphabet very early. He was reading by three.
My daughter hasn’t shown any real “flashes” of brilliance, but she grasps concepts very quickly when they are explained to her. You rarely need to explain anything to her more than once. And she remembers just about everything.
Zev Steinhardt
My son who will be three in April can count to twelve, say the alphabet, knows left from right, and understands all traffic signals. He’s a back seat driver and he isn’t even three! He has a McDonald’s tooth (so maybe not so smart - but I think it is the toys, especially while they were giving out the Tonka trucks) . I was shocked the first time I heard a frantic “turn left, Mommy! McDonalds!!!” and he was correct, I needed to turn left.
He can also run his computer by himself (except we won’t let him change the CD-ROM disks by himself), knows how to install new games (pretty much because there is always a next or an OK button, and the little dots that the system suggests your choice, but still…) and he can go on the internet without help - with observation (because I have a shortcut on the desktop to Elmo’s World, but he can go forward and back and click around and get where he wants to go.) He also won’t fall for anything. One day when it was windy, I told him to ask the wind to be quiet, but I was informed the wind does not have ears, so there was no point in his doing so. There is no teasing him about monsters - he says there is no such thing. He also makes fun of television shows that make no sense. For example: Franklin the turtle fell in the water and was upset, to which my son said, “that’s silly! turtles live in the water! why is he mad?”
Not sure it is smart, but it sure was funny - My father was telling my husband something and referred to someone as a dumbass within my son’s earshot. A few weeks later, we were all in car together and someone slammed on the brakes for no particular reason in the lane next to us, screeching his tires and those of the people behind him. It startled everyone. My son wanted to know what happened. When we explained, he replied with perfect intonation, “What a dumbass!” He was 30 months at the time. After we were able to stop laughing, we explained how that was not a nice word.
The Kidlet is currently 2.5. She learned to recite the alphabet a while ago, I think from one of her music CDs. She can count to about 14, and recognize a bunch of letters and her written name (not very amazing, I know, but it makes me happy). She likes to ask what signs and words say. She never quits talking, and has more vocabulary than most of her friends. (She is also completely unathletic, so it evens out.)
I’m not very sure about her drawing skills, but I think they’re neat. She’s now drawing people and a couple different animals, and adds eyebrows, ears, and toes. Trees are lollipop shapes with circles around the edges for leaves. She often colors inside the lines, and we’ve never told her to.
She recently started making logical deductions, coming out with statements that she’s figured out from other things we’ve said. She has a good memory and will mention things weeks later that we didn’t know she remembered.
I think my kids are pretty neat little people.
My oldest takes after me. She is very verbal. I don’t think she has stopped talking these past three and a half years. She knew most of her letters at age 1. Yes, one. She has taught herself how to read. She would figure words out all by herself, and I’d ask her how she knew what something said. Her response: I see it in my head, and I hear it.
OK!
My husband and I have remarked about how she never went through that “why?” phase. She never went through it because she knew all the answers, I swear. She was and is able to arrive at logical conclusions on her own, and has always been self-assured to the point of ticking my husband off.
She is a very good artist with an eye for detail. Her memory is also excellent. Mr. BodiceRipper is a child psychologist, and gave her a modified IQ test when she was 2 (he’s such a dork). He estimates her IQ to be about 145-150. He’s even a worse braggart than I am when it comes to our kids.
I, too, love to hear about other people’s kids. Not because I’m competetive, but because I think we have a right as parents to think they are the greatest little (or big) people on earth!