# Kids with remarkable skills **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 5, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-with-remarkable-skills/347171 "2006-03-05T19:44:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-with-remarkable-skills/347171/21 "2006-03-08T19:33:26Z")
My daughter new how to operate the DVD player before she was two. Now that she is three, she can use most of the remote and switch from DVD to VCR mode and then change channels to watch what she wants. Right after she turned two, there was a flyer at her day care advertising computer lessons for ages 2 and up. It insisted they could learn. I work in IT and said screw it, I will see for myself. When we got home, I took her to my computer showed her the mouse and some basic keyboard things and away she went. I swear she could fully use the mouse (well) after five minutes of instruction. I think I screwed up though because I have to fight with a three year old for computer time. She uses bookmarks to surf the web and watches online video clips, and plays some games that I got for her. She has mastered it all. I am seriously considering her own full computer before she gets to kindergarten. What can I say, I was a pretty good programmer at 8 years old and even taught myself some Assembly language from a manual for fun at that age. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-with-remarkable-skills/347171/22 "2006-03-08T19:39:51Z")
My daughter, who just turned 5, is able to fieldstrip and reassemble an M-16A2. She can’t do it blindfolded, yet, but we’re working on it. ---
**Author:** ![Chouinard\_Fan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@Chouinard\_Fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chouinard_Fan)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-with-remarkable-skills/347171/23 "2006-03-08T20:41:44Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > My daughter, who just turned 5, is able to fieldstrip and reassemble an M-16A2. She can’t do it blindfolded, yet, but we’re working on it. LOL, I’ve known enough servicemen that had trouble with that task; but an M16-A2 is no big deal my kid can assemble/disassemble a M109-A6 (Paladin) 155mm Self-propelled Howitzer, so there. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-with-remarkable-skills/347171/24 "2006-03-10T06:35:51Z")
> [@Chouinard Fan](#): > > While driving a few weeks back he and his little bro started cheering and clapping. He said “(his little bro) said it, he said it! He said ‘ohren!’” Now I’ve got my 3 yo teaching the 1 yo GERMAN. I promised him the world if he succeeded in helping his bro learn. > Yesturday his mom told me “when we were at the store he opened the door and held it for this lady and her daughter.” Physically speaking I’m impressed with that but other than seeing me do the same I don’t know how he would ever have learned that at 3. I lauded him for his unprompted gentlemanly conduct. I read this and was impressed, and then I realized who it was. Awwww… ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-with-remarkable-skills/347171/25 "2006-03-10T06:41:08Z")
> [@Chouinard Fan](#): > > LOL, I’ve known enough servicemen that had trouble with that task; but an M16-A2 is no big deal my kid can assemble/disassemble a M109-A6 (Paladin) 155mm Self-propelled Howitzer, so there. That’s funny. “army man”, “Pow”: Aaron II ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-with-remarkable-skills/347171/26 "2006-03-10T07:03:27Z")
My kid is a perfectly ordinary, average 10-year-old who plays well with others. However, he can (1) dislocate his thumbs (either one) without using the other hand, (2) get both his ankles behind his neck while in a sitting position (yeah, I guess this wouldn’t really work in any other position, would it?), and (3) jump up into the air and kick himself in the butt with both feet. Due to some kind of optical illusion this makes it look like he is hovering in the air. Oh yes–he lands on his feet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-with-remarkable-skills/347171.md?page=1)