https://www.davidsongifted.org/gifted-blog/the-highly-gifted-baby/ Sat, 03 Jun 2023 19:21:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.davidsongifted.org/gifted-blog/the-highly-gifted-baby/#comment-15188 Sat, 03 Jun 2023 19:21:01 +0000 http://www.davidsongifted.org/?p=3333#comment-15188 I think my daughter is gifted and she has been diagnosed with Down syndrome. She said her first word at 2 months and started speaking in sentences at 8 months. At 2 months she started dancing rhythmically when laying in her crib, by 4 months she would pay attention to videos about music for over 15 minutes. According to information on the internet this is impossible. Other parents I talk to (who don’t know she has Down’s syndrome) can’t believe she is speaking sentences already and she is 13 months now. She says things like “I did it”, “I want that”, “Where dada?”, “Want mama”, “Not all done”, “Want up!” Etc.

]]> https://www.davidsongifted.org/gifted-blog/the-highly-gifted-baby/#comment-6393 Sat, 30 Apr 2022 02:43:36 +0000 http://www.davidsongifted.org/?p=3333#comment-6393 These babies sound adorable and very cute. (Well of course all babies are cute gifted, average or intellectually disabled.) I wondered if these children might have something to tell us either as babies because they can communicate better or perhaps later on from their memory because they remember their babyhood and childhood better how children and babies are treated and how we might treat them better and with more care and equality and respect. I have no memories of being a baby and how I was treated as a baby or what a baby’s feelings are about how adults treat them, but it would be interesting to hear. Maybe some of these highly gifted babies when they grow up still remember. It would be so interesting to hear their thoughts and feelings and perspectives on how we adults can better treat babies and seek equality with them and children.

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