I read the article...and have found some answers for Jared's weird behaviour
Gifted children might express heightened physical sensitivities to light, touch and textures. Parents of some gifted children have to cut the tags out of their kids’ clothing, for example, or buy specially-designed socks with no seams.
Certain thing I just couldn't figure out for him, simple task like:
Swimming-when all others can put their head in water, he couldn't, when all others can jump into the water, he couldn't
Swing/Slides- when all other kids can just hop on and enjoy it, he couldn't
Making friends- he had no friends for P1, P2, only learnt how to mix with others at P3
All these tasks are a breeze to Kaylen, who can do it 3 yrs ahead of koko.
At the family dinner table, Morgan rambled on about how she learned about pi. About Archimedes. About the pay system of the ancient Incas. “It got to the point that my parents said ‘You need to stop and let everyone else talk about their day as well.'”
Yes, Jared would also go on and on telling us what new stuff he learnt from what he read. I usually cut him out. But this story left a deep impression in me. And he especially like pi 3.142 and speed of light. He thinks that if anyone can go faster than speed of light, he will be able to travel back to the past.
When we go to East Coast Park, he saw the water was having high tide, and continued to say cos the moon was up, the gravity of the moon cos the water level to increase.
They know a lot of things from their own reading and can remembers them.
Janice Robertson agrees: a congregated gifted program may well have saved her son’s life. Janice had long been concerned about Mark (both their names have been changed). He was an exceptionally smart kid who taught himself to read by the time he was two years old. But a darkness always hung behind Mark’s brightness. “He would say things like, ‘I’m just going to hurt myself,'” Janice remembers. He used to bang his head on the floor and once, when he was three, pointed to a digger on a construction site and said, “I’m going to ask that digger to dig a hole and put us in it and bury us.”
Jared do occasionally talked about bad stuff like this..
On the contrary, Kaylen who writes better, reads better at the same age, but she just don't show up the giftedness. She is a happy child that fit really well everywhere.
She don't talk about the chim chim stuff..she's not interested to read more to gain knowledge..But she does her work really well.. I will not be disappointed if she not going to make it to GEP in P3.
