Everyone says my two-year-old is very smart. They tell me his play is characteristic of a much older child, he has advanced spatial sense, and he observes and mimics the behavior of others rapidly and accurately.
He may be gifted, but he's still two. So, combine a brain accelerated in some areas, behind in judgement, add opposable thumbs and mobility, and you have a compact, unpredictable, and highly destructive fragile energetic gremlin. He turns thermostats up to the max, sticks his fingers in the paper shredder (that his father forgets to unplug), climbs into the refrigerator, opens tubes of ointment and glue, scatters small objects of any sort far and wide, and opens containers of liquid and turns them upside down. Our house has no finished floor on the upper level, so liquids go right through and it rains downstairs. Since there is an awesome racetrack on the upper level (we thought it was a loft with a stairwell in the middle) he loves to go up there.
All those people who "celebrate giftedness"? They're nuts. Now that I think about it, I should be awarded a medal for cooking a meal.
3 comments:
but two-year-olds are so CUTE!!
Cute, and yet full of doom!
Mmmm, Pam, you were once a gifted 2-year-old, just not an engineering- oriented one. Your genius was social, and you charmed and disarmed every human in reach!
I don't think however that I can prove I am not a robot, so this comment will probably not enter.From Mom with happy memories!
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