Parent Suggestions
Record Keeping
Begin a file of your child's records and development as early as possible. Keep the pediatrician's notes and reports; daycare or preschool records; your observations of your child's development; copies of artwork, writing, and workbook exercises in the file.
In particular your notes should include the following:
- ability to remember in detail and for long periods of time, experiences or things they have heard and seen;
- reading without formal instruction and a facility with numbers and number concepts;
- a fascination with how things work, including the ability to take things apart and put them back together or to explain to you how things work;
- exceptional ability with board games, especially those involving strategy and memory and an interest in and facility with, shapes and relationships, including the ability to put together difficult puzzles, seeing relationships between words and sounds, between letters and shapes, between numbers and letters;
- a unique sensitivity to how others feel and the meaning of experiences; and any special talent that develops early and spontaneously in the musical, artistic, or motor area.