I thought she was about seven or eight in the mousetrap poem, when Adam was a toddler. Definitely not over 10...
...and yes, gifted kids can do all sorts of unexpected things.
- An older relative built a glider when he was about 12, based on instructions from a magazine.
-I taught a younger relative to play regular chess, and when we got bored we started looking up chess variants.
- I apparently started 'talking' [infant sign] when I was a few months old...made even more impressive by the fact that I was premature [1.5 months] which usually involves delayed measurement of developmental milestones.
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Re: I think I need to re-read this
Date: 2021-07-14 12:21 am (UTC)...and yes, gifted kids can do all sorts of unexpected things.
- An older relative built a glider when he was about 12, based on instructions from a magazine.
-I taught a younger relative to play regular chess, and when we got bored we started looking up chess variants.
- I apparently started 'talking' [infant sign] when I was a few months old...made even more impressive by the fact that I was premature [1.5 months] which usually involves delayed measurement of developmental milestones.